Clay Committee Report Original Transmittal Letter
This is a PDF of the original letter from the five members of President Eisenhower’s “Clay Committee” transmitting their final report on “A 10-Year National Highway Program.”
By Jeff Davis
This is a PDF of the original letter from the five members of President Eisenhower’s “Clay Committee” transmitting their final report on “A 10-Year National Highway Program.”
By Jeff Davis
This is an internal White House summary of the January 31, 1956 meeting between President Eisenhower, his staff and key Cabinet members with House and Senate Republican leaders. The summary is a “personal and confidential”…
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file is a copy of a one-page memorandum dated April 11, 1960 from President Eisenhower to the Secretary of Commerce listing seven guidelines on the future construction of the Interstate Highway System that…
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file contains two documents relating to a December 5, 1957 meeting at the White House between senior Eisenhower Administration staff and seven railroad CEOs, regarding the financial situation of the railroad industry/
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file is a “memo for the record” of a meeting held on November 30, 1959 between President Eisenhower and his Special Assistant for Public Works Planning, John S. Bragdon.
By Jeff Davis
This is the final report given to President Eisenhower on the status of the Interstate Highway Program, dated December 28, 1960.
By Jeff Davis
This is a 100+ page report on the status and future of the Interstate Highway Program, prepared in March 1960 for President Eisenhower by his Special Assistant for Public Works Planning, John S. Bragdon, and…
By Jeff Davis
Records of White House meetings in January-February 1955 to determine whether or not President Eisenhower should endorse the Clay Committee report on highways.
By Jeff Davis
This PDF is a copy of a letter from Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to Senate Finance Committee chairman Harry Byrd (D-VA), dated March 23, 1956 and marked “personal” and addressed “Dear Harry,” reflecting the close…
By Jeff Davis
This is a PDF file of documents from the 1954 “inside” Eisenhower Administration committee originally intended to parallel the “outside” Clay Committee coming up with highway program recommendations. Documents in the file include, in order:…
Someone once asked me if all of the transportation policy history articles I have written for ETW were collected in one place. They were not, so now they are. Multi-Part Series: A Conversation With Alan Boyd, the First U.S. Secretary of Transportation Part 1 (February…
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