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LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH ROBERT MOSES - National Archives and Records Administration 1953-02-11 - ARC Identifier 95822 / Local Identifier LW-LW-196 - TELEVISION INTERVIEW: William Bradford Huie and Hardy Burt talk with Robert Moses, city planner, on urban renewal and problems in public planning of traffic, housing and parkways. Copied by IASL Master Scanner Thomas Gideon.

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@mck1972 10 years ago

I am currently reading ' The Power Broker ', Robert Caro's nearly 1200 p Biography of Moses.
What comes through crystal clear in this book is that Moses was an absolutely Ruthless, Remorseless, Amoral, Power-Hungry, Egomaniacal, Arrogant, SOB!
What also comes through crystal clear is that Moses got results...

@OneOnOne1162 6 years ago

Currently going through The Power Broker and when they asked him that question I was mouthing "Al Smith" before 11:25 even came up. It was pretty exciting, tbh.

@paktype 13 years ago

This interview was done in 1953 - right after Moses got through with destroying the Bronx by building the Cross-Bronx Expressway. A disaster of a highway if there ever was one. Only the Long Island Expressway is worse.

@Peppersfirst 6 years ago

Edward Norton sent me here.

@julianfrost4698 6 years ago

His voice sounds exactly like I thought it would...

@apollocobain8363 5 years ago

Taxes, tolls, fees, permits, fines, EZ-pass, surcharges, registration fees, inspection fees, disposal fees, gasoline taxes, bridge tolls, license plate fees, parking tickets, parking meters...Robert Moses = a libertarian's nightmare.
Never has the price of dystopian racist vision of the future cost us more than the one Robert Moses was allowed to realize.

@JoJoRock197 6 years ago

I'm listening to The Powerbroker audiobook at work, but I've also long realized i need to sit down and get immersed in the book. Fantastic experience!

@paktype 13 years ago

The point behind The Power Broker was that while in the beginning, Moses built things solely for the benefit of the public, he later built things solely because being in charge of those projects gave him political power.

@rrotwang 2 years ago

A brilliant man

@Staalstraal 9 years ago

I like the younger interviewer, he is direct and investigative.

@garagedancer122 6 years ago

Moses was an influencer agent for the auto-industry who expertly exploited New York City's socio-economic-politics to build his program and not that of trained planners and architects.

@futureshock-2112 9 years ago

At 9:25, why doesn't he say subway lines? Was the Subway in Manhattan built by that time?

@terencedove5047 7 months ago

Having read THE POWER BROKER as well, one can’t blame Robert Caro for being so painstakingly honest and thorough in his assessment of Moses. But also consider this; in comparing Moses to a certain supposed present-day POTUS, Moses’s decisions and actions irreparably impacted as many as he supposedly benefited. And he was quite deliberate about it…

This can also be said: it’s obvious that Moses didn’t perform in front of the cameras the way a certain POTUS has…

@timothylines631 4 years ago

HELLOW DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND.

@empirestate8791 8 years ago

I think that Moses didn't exactly understand urban sprawl ...

@ElSmusso 13 years ago

To bad about Penn Station...

@mwoldin 12 years ago

Interesting how crude the technical conditions are. Moses is constantly clearing his throat. Today he would have had people prepping him for the interview.
And how frank he was with the money figures! How bold we were! This was before the whole country got sold on the idea of the government being the enemy, spending money always being the bugbear.