"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 03/25/2021 09:45 PM, %% wrote:


"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 03/25/2021 01:46 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 3:40:22 PM UTC-4, wrote:

Reagan may have been the last president I supported most of the time
but he screwed up a lot too. Where is Eisenhower when we need him?

In Heaven, pursuing dangerously liberal ideas, like the interstate
highway
system, desegregation, and Earl Warren.

He did remark before stepping on the rainbow that Warren was the
biggest mistake in his career. That interstate highway thing was a
little something he picked up from the National Socialists when he was
vacationing in Germany.

Nope, he realised the problem in the USA well before that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inters...ystem#Planning

"Eisenhower also gained an appreciation of the Reichsautobahn system, the
first "national" implementation of modern Germany's Autobahn network, as a
necessary component of a national defense system while he was serving as
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II"

You ignored this bit just before that.

"In 1919 the U.S. Army sent an expedition across the U.S. to determine
the difficulties that military vehicles would have on a cross-country trip.
Leaving from the Ellipse near the White House on July 7, the Motor
Transport Corps convoy needed 62 days to drive 3,200 miles (5,100 km)
on the Lincoln Highway to the Presidio army base on San Francisco Bay.
They experienced significant difficulties including rickety bridges, broken
crankshafts, and engines clogged with desert sand.[7]"

"Dwight Eisenhower, then a 28-year-old lieutenant, accompanied the trip
"through darkest America with truck and tank," as he later described it.
Some roads in the West were a "succession of dust, ruts, pits, and holes."
Eisenhower recalled that, "The old convoy had started me thinking about
good two-lane highways... the wisdom of broader ribbons across our land."[7]

"As the landmark 1916 law expired, new legislation was passed€”the Federal
Aid Highway Act of 1921 (Phipps Act). This new road construction initiative
once again provided for federal matching funds for road construction and
improvement, $75 million allocated annually.[8] Moreover, this new
legislation
for the first time sought to target these funds to the construction of a
national
road grid of interconnected "primary highways", setting up cooperation among
the various state highway planning boards.[8]"

That was all long before Adolf had even
thought about any Reichsautobahn system.

My family and I drove from New York State to Seattle in 1952, for the most
part on the Lincoln Highway. It was a little better than Eisenhower's
experience but not much. Coming back on 66 was a bit different.

But was nothing even remotely like the german autobahn system.