The Interstate was initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Late 1950s under president Eisenhower. The full name of the system is "The National Defense and Interstate Highway System".
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helping strengthen our national defense by creating an easier means of transporting people and goods in an emergency.
John Muir is generally credited with the idea of creating a National Park System. The movement for an independent agency to oversee the federal lands was spearheaded by Stephen Mather, as well as J. Horace McFarland. With the help of journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather ran a publicity campaign for the Department of the Interior. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill into law which created the National Park Service.
The interstate highway system was designed to be used as military runways.
a national highway system
A national highway system
A national highway system
A national highway system
Dwight Eisenhower
Late 1950s under president Eisenhower. The full name of the system is "The National Defense and Interstate Highway System".
A national highway system
The National Defense Highway System is usually called the Interstate Highway System or the Eisenhower Highway System.
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was President of the US when the Interstate highway system was formed.
In November 1995 President Clinton signed the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995, which injected an additional $5.4 billion into the federal contribution set aside for the NHS.