Smith offered Moses a commission presidency he had not solicited

Evidence

Near the latter part of the summer, Alfred E. Smith found himself being chauffeured around Long Island, with Moses sitting beside him, pointing and talking. Smith became enthusiastic about the plans. He asked Mrs. Moskowitz to look into the situation, and Moses gave her the full tour. She approved, and Smith told Moses that when the park program was submitted to the Legislature in 1924, it could be expanded. “Why don’t you take the whole thing over yourself?” the Governor asked. “Why don’t I make you president of the Long Island State Park Commission?” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 756

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• XREF: connects to: Parks became a uniquely coalition-broadening issue no faction opposed — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 746; Moses refused the patronage sinecure Smith offered him in 1923 — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 623