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wkiernan
> mcseanerson
05/13/2015 at 18:22 |
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Just one little cavil about the Eisenhower/Interstates story. No doubt he was well-acquainted with Hitler’s Autobahns, and he understood their military potential completely, but according to his biography the initial idea came not from WW2 but WW1, when as a low-ranking officer he was ordered to lead a truck convoy from the East Coast to the West Coast. This took weeks; there was no route over paved roads from coast to coast.