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DanTheFan

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Good call. FDR personally drew up a map.


From the National Archives: "During a meeting at the White House on February 2nd, 1938, President Roosevelt gave Thomas MacDonald, then Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, the map shown above. Those who were present at the meeting reported that the president seemed much taken with the idea of a series of transcontinental highways and continued to discuss the proposal over the course of the remainder of the year. On the map, the president had drawn a series of blue lines illustrating five transcontinental north-south and east-west routes."

Eisenhower certainly deserves the credit for making it a reality, selling it as a Cold War investment.
[Post edited by DanTheFan at 03/06/2022 11:02PM]

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