Science, knowledge, logic and brilliance might be useful tools but they didn’t build highways or civil service systems. Power built highways and civi… - Robert A. Caro

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Science, knowledge, logic and brilliance might be useful tools but they didn’t build highways or civil service systems. Power built highways and civil service systems. Power was what dreams needed, not power in the hand of the dreamer himself necessarily but power put behind the dreamer’s dream by the man who it to put there, power that he termed “executive support”.

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