![]() ![]() ![]() First, he must be allowed to keep his state jobs, the chairmanship of the State Council of Parks and the presidency of the Long Island State Park Commission. Moses told the Mayor-elect that he would be interested in taking over the city parks-but only under certain conditions. ![]() When, shortly after the election, LaGuardia invited Moses to join his administration, their discussions centered on parks, not public authorities. No one else saw what he saw-including, most significantly, Fiorello LaGuardia, who was elected to his first term as mayor in 1933. ![]() And he was beginning to focus on another humble institution-the public authority. Now, in the early nineteen-thirties, Robert Moses wanted to extend his influence into New York City, where he would need power of new, even greater dimensions. Robert Moses first obtained power, during the nineteen-twenties, by seeing the potential for power where other men had not-in the humble agencies of state government that administered state parks-and by creating out of them a single, unified body with immense power, power insulated from and thus, in its field, independent of the government to which it was ostensibly subordinate. ![]()
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