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The President's News Conference, February 10, 1954

As you know, under the law there would normally come about soon a half-cent reduction in the Federal tax on gasoline. You also know in the statement already made that the administration hopes to keep that half-cent tax in order to push...

Eisenhower Interstate Highway System - Interstate Density Map

The Changing Face of America

The map series below shows the progression of the Interstate System, decade by decade. As the progression illustrates, the Interstate System was essentially complete by the 1980s. The map series shows that while population remains dense in the Northeast,...

50th Anniversary Interstate Highway System - Video Gallery

Road Films

Motion pictures have frequently portrayed the American highway as well as the allure of the open road. Many of these were produced by the Bureau of Public Roads—the predecessor to the Federal Highway Administration.

Some of these programs require the use of a...

Zane's Trace

By Rickie Longfellow

Colonel Ebenezer Zane, beginning with Zane's Trace, played a major role in the social and economic development of Ohio, placing it on the path to statehood.

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