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done while they were getting around to passing a resolution to have them done. He would just go ahead and do them. He's been a blessing, although utterly ruthless.

Moses had a great scheme for the improvement of the New York waterfront, connecting Governors Island and the Battery, where the old Aquarium was, and a new bridge to Brooklyn at that point. It was at a time when public works were very much needed. It was after Roosevelt was President and I was Secretary of Labor. Public works were very much needed for the relief of unemployment. Ickes was director of public works and was busily promoting all kinds of public works, particularly in places like New York, where they had great pockets of unemployment and where they had, as he said, in Moses a city planner and a planner of public works who was superb and who had a whole battery of useful things that ought to be done in the back of his mind. Ickes was very pleased with this project and I think proposed it to the President. He said in Cabinet meeting that Moses recommended this, that it had been well thought out, was a good project and was going to make an enormous amount of employment.

The President pulled down his lip - a sign by which I always knew that something phony was going on inside of him. He'd pull his mouth down over his teeth and say,