No substantive disagreement underpinned Moses’ tunnel power grab
Evidence
Search as one may through the record—not only the public record, which is scanty indeed, because the fight was carried on largely in secrecy, but through confidential memoranda and letters culled from La Guardia’s files and files of other principals involved—one is unable to identify a single real difference of opinion between Moses and the Authority on any point of substance relevant to the planning, construction or administration of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2593
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Moses’ motive shifted from building works to seizing power itself — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2594; Moses disguised a power grab as a coordination speech — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2601