Memo dated April 13, 1961 from White House aide Lee White to senior Kennedy adviser Ted Sorensen on the fight between the Commerce Department and the Housing and Home Finance Agency over who would have…
Comments of the Bureau of the Budget submitted to the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on S. 345, the mass transit bill introduced by Sen. Harrison Williams at some point after April 20, 1961.
April 5, 1961 memo from the Bureau of the Budget criticizing Senator Harrison Williams’ proposed Urban Mass Transportation Act (S. 345), together with views of other Administration agencies, and providing the text of a BoB…
White House memo from James M. Landis dated May 4, 1961 providing an in-depth critique of Senator Harrison Williams’ proposed Emergency Mass Transportation Act.
Statement of Sen. Harrison Williams prepared in advance of the the March 20, 1961 Senate hearing on his urban mass transit bill, S. 345.
Letter from Sen. Harrison Williams to White House aide Lee White dated April 28, 1961, transmitting a new bill he had drafted to fix problems seen by the White House in his earlier urban mass…
Memos from March 1961 expressing the views of the Bureau of the Budget and the Department of Commerce on Senator Harrison Williams’ bill S. 345, the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1961, and related urban…
Undated draft report prepared by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator and the Secretary of Commerce for President Kennedy on urban transportation.
May 3, 1961 letter to President Kennedy from the chairman of the Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations transmitting a preview chapter of their forthcoming recommendations on the division of federal-state-local responsibilities on mass transportation in…
Set of memos from February 1976 presenting President Ford with the views of Administration agencies and officials on the enrolled bill S. 2718, the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, including a lengthy…
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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