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Robert Moses’s conflicts with mayors and governors were about his construction decisions and displacement of people, not his personal conduct.
Dwarkesh Patel · What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 29 Oct 2026
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“But any differences he had with the mayor or governor were more about what he decided to build and whom he displaced to build it rather than his personal conduct. As Caro himself writes, quote, "Robert Moses was not himself corrupt.”7:28Report a misattribution
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