Sublime

King despaired. After nearly three years, his relationship with President Kennedy had run out of room. Although the movement needed federal intervention more than ever, realism told King he could not pressure President Kennedy an inch further. Brooding, he took the young Justice Department lawyer Thelton Henderson privately aside. “I’m concerned ab

Jim Farley, still bleeding from his dissection by Moses in the mayoral campaign, wandered into the gubernatorial contest with a quiet little statement of support for Lehman and promptly found himself back on Moses’ operating table.

obloquy

“Bob always took care of people who cooperated with him.” If you cooperated.

He was college president until 1973; he ran for the Senate in 1976, aged seventy, becoming a Republican for the first time.

But he was about to become—beginning in that summer of 1957—the greatest champion that the liberal senators, and Margaret Frost and the millions of other black Americans, had had since, almost a century before, there had been a President named Lincoln.

But the Little Flower wasn’t mastering Robert Moses. The relationship of the two men was the talk, or rather the whisper, of City Hall.

He was like a farmer trying to convince a sly mule that the way to the feed house went through the plow fields.