As Robert Moses grew older and his position weakened, officials probably could have removed him if they were willing to face public and newspaper criticism; Nelson Rockefeller eventually removed him.

“Well, almost impossible because at the end, if you wanted to do it, uh, Rockefeller did it. But by that time, cracks had appeared in the armor.”

“I think for s- decades, the answer to your question is, you couldn't do it. But then as he got older, cracks appeared in the armor, and you could, if you, if you wanted to brave w- criticism in all the newspapers and public criticism and everything else, you probably could have done.”