Robert Moses Luncheon Speech

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Speaking at a luncheon, Robert Moses welcomes to New York exhibitors to the 1964 Worlds Fair. He expresses his pride in New York despite an ongoing newspaper strike, in which the "sophisticated metropolis, well informed by every device of modern communication, has been reduced to capsule news, coffee house gossip, smoke signals, scuttlebutt, and telepathy."

He extols the virtues of the United Nations and its noble work, "we can boast that our town has become the capitol of the world." Furthermore, he praises the impending World's Fair as an "International Olympics of progress in every branch of human endeavor," and provides guests with some information about building schedules and procedures.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150471
Municipal archives id: LT9513

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