The ideas Moses had bored minor officials with now found their first great listener.

Evidence

But between the chats with passers-by, there was plenty of time for talking between Moses and Smith, and not all the talking was done by the former Governor. In fact, as twilight walk succeeded twilight walk, more and more of it was done by Moses. The ideas on government which he had poured forth for almost a decade, the theories, proposals, plans, advice—the dreams—with which he had bored staffers at the Bureau of Municipal Research, examiners at the Municipal Civil Service Commission, borough presidents, park commissioners and a legion of minor city officials, now were poured forth again. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 488

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: how rejected ideas circulate until they meet the one powerful person with the position to enact them — the long fuse of policy influence.