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All these must be attended to along with the other unlimited problems
A
in which we have common interests and common responsibilities. All of
them require some measure of Federal-State cooperation. Some are
insoluble except in closest cooperation. For example, a top priority in
our planning must be given to transportation, an industry whose health and
efficiency are indispensable to the national defense and the national economy.
A cabinet committee has been established to explore and to help formulate
a comprehensive transportation policy for the Nation -- taking into account
the vital interests of carriers, shippers, the states and communities, the
public at large.
More specifically, our highway net is inadequate locally and obsolete
as a national system. Experts say 5 billion a year for ten years -- in
addition to current normal expenditures -- will pay off in economic growth.
And when we have spent 50 billion, we shall only have made a good start
on the highways the country will need for a population of 200 million.
VV what THE we that HIGHWAY need will is NET a not OF 50,000,000 THE be enough UNITED hopering STATES AS IT IS. and
The net is obsolete because in large part it merely happened.
1.
Governed at the beginning by terrain, existing Indian
trails, cattle trails, arbitrary section lines.
2. Designed largely for local movement at slow speed of one
or two horsepower.
3.
Adjusted, at intervals, to meet metropolitan traffic gluts,
transcontinental movement, and increased horsepower, but
never completely overhauled or planned to satisfy needs ten
years ahead.
4. Eisenhower parenthesis thirty-five years ago this month,
S of W initiated a transcontinental truck convoy to prove
the gas engine had displaced the mule even on our
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
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