Moses surpassed Al Smith as Albany’s master bill drafter

Evidence

And Smith had never been shy about accepting that accolade. But now, when someone brought up the subject, Smith said, “The best bill drafter I know is Bob Moses.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 622

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the earlier chapter where Moses’s talent for crafted language first emerges; also foreshadows his use of the legislative black arts later as parks coordinator. — connects to: Al Smith mastered Albany not through oratory but by solitary study of obscure texts — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 526