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by
Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration
From the vantage point of the 21st century, we can see how the Interstate Highway Program launched in 1956 turned out. But as the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was working its way through the...
by Richard F. Weingroff
Everyone supported the Interstate System. It had bipartisan support in Congress, broad support among the public, and a strong endorsement from President Dwight D. Eisenhower. On May 25, 1955, the Senate passed legislation introduced by Senator Albert Gore, Sr. (D-...
While serving as Federal Highway Administrator (1989-1993), Dr. Thomas D. Larson prepared a weekly Administrator's Note for FHWA employees. Two of them discussed one of his predecessors, Rex Whitton. They are reproduced here because they provide a unique insight into one of the FHWA's...
In anticipation of leaving office as Federal Highway Administrator, Bertram D. Tallamy wrote this article for the January 1961 issue of Highway Highlights magazine. It reflects the progress made during the Eisenhower Administration on the National System of Interstate and...
Late in the Second Administration of President Eisenhower, he asked General John S. Bragdon to review the Interstate Highway Program to determine if changes were needed to resolve funding problems that developed when the program was accelerated to combat a recession. As part of the review,...
[THE FOLLOWING NOTES ARE BY GENERAL JOHN S. BRAGDON]
January 24, 1958
Prior to entering the Cabinet Meeting Mr. Tallamy and I discussed employment. The figures that had been supplied him by the Bureau of Public Roads and those of which I am familiar (including...
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 2, 1959
Dear General Bragdon:
The Federal-aid Highway Act of 1956 provided for a sharply accelerated roads program, established a time limit for completing the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, committed...
August 5, 1957
In a review of accomplishments during the first year of the long-range highway program set in motion by President Eisenhower and the 84th Congress in June 1956, Federal Highway Administrator Bertram D. Tallamy reported to Secretary of Commerce Sinclair...
On June 7, 1956, President Eisenhower suffered severe stomach pains that sent him to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had experienced stomach problems for years, but this time, doctors determined that the cause was ileitis (an inflammation of the ileum, part of the small intestine) and that...
From William Mullen's "Road Warriors" in Sunday, The Chicago Tribune Magazine (October 20, 1985):
In 1964, the Chicago City Council, whether or not it knew of Eisenhower's unhappiness about freeways in urban areas, decided to bestow a rather ironic honor...