despite repeated assurances by the governor, remained unauthorized, I realized that Robert Moses’ days of power were over, and to the complex mixture of my feelings about him was now added a wholly new one: pity. For, as one of his secretaries, Harold Blake, told me, “He had just as much energy as ever. And what was he going to do with it now?” An architect who knew him well, Arnold Vollmer, said, “The idea of this great mind having nothing to do—that’s the most awful thing.” And his wife, Rebekah Vollmer, who also knew Moses well, said, “It’s horrible. For him, that would be hell.” I had
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