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No mayor or governor wanted to fire Robert Moses.

Dwarkesh Patel · What I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses · 29 Oct 2026

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“More importantly, no mayor or governor wanted to fire him. The way we remember Robert Moses today is based on a reputation that was calcified in the 1970s when The Power Broker came out and when New York was experiencing a dark age of crime, deindustrialization, and white flight.”
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No mayor or governor wanted to fire Robert Moses. · Savlar