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Robert Caro says Robert Moses overcame existing safeguards and obstacles and proceeded to build, despite contemporary claims that construction was impossible.
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“And Robert Moses comes along, and all of a sudden those things vanish because he d- despite all the safeguards and everything else, he just builds.”6:45Report a misattribution
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