Two towering egos could not share one state’s public-works stage

Evidence

So acute an observer as Perry Duryea says he “could just see Rocky thinking that there wasn’t enough room in one state for a Robert Moses and a Nelson Rockefeller both clicking on all six.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4357

Categorization

• CANDY: A quotable one-liner capturing the inevitability of the clash.