Mar 04, 2022 at 06:09 PM CST
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In 1919, a transcontinental truck convoy that included then-Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower drove more than 3,000 miles from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California, to test the mobility of the military during wartime. That two-month trip is widely believed to have been the beginnings of Eisenhower’s later support of the Interstate Highway System. |