Power can be tasted for its own sake, separate from any agenda

Evidence

Moses had a taste of power now, and he liked the taste—so obviously that, to some observers, it seemed as if he liked the taste in and for itself. Keen-eyed little Reuben Lazarus, who had been brought to Albany from the Old Neighborhood as an Assembly page when Smith was Assembly Speaker and had already become one of the most knowledgeable men in the capitol on the intricacies of bill drafting, remembers that “when I first used to see Moses in Albany, before he had any power, he was a striking figure, dark and handsome, tall and gangly, striding down the corridors with those long strides of his, but he was withdrawn, he was within himself. But then, when Smith brought him up there, he began to be, quite suddenly and quite noticeably, a lot more arrogant, stiff-necked and self-assertive.” Belle Moskowitz’s son, Carlos Israels, noticed the same transformation when Moses visited the Moskowitzes. “Now he attitudinized when he talked. He would lean back, cross his knees and hold his pipe in an affected attitude.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 619

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the ch3 claim that power shifts from serving dreams to serving itself — here we see the behavioral onset of that shift in real time. — connects to: Power is an addictive drug that shifts from serving dreams to serving itself. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 96