Apr 4, 2009
When [New York City commissioners] attempted to establish an esprit by meeting for weekly “commissioners’ luncheons,” moses refused to attend—a gesture they interpreted, correctly, as an attempt by Moses to show them that he considered himself above them. They considered the plant from a Park Department greenhouse that Moses sent in his place each week a gratuitous insult.
Power Broker, 475

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