OMB memo from sometime in November 1970 giving detail of each major issue at stake in the pending highway bill (H.R. 19504) about to go before the House of Representatives and summarizing the OMB, DOT…
Memo from the Department of Transportation (undated, but from some time in November 1970) expressing DOT’s position on the various issues under discussion in the House and Senate versions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of…
November 24, 1970 White House legislative affairs staff memo discussing meetings held with key GOP legislators on the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 and their reluctant agreement to “swallowing the whole bill on the floor…
November 17, 1970 memo summarizing a meeting between White House staff and General Motors lobbyist Ray Ouelette discussing the internal fight within the highway lobby over opening up the Highway Trust Fund to mass transit…
November 13, 1970 internal White House staff memo suggesting that the Nixon Administration “make some effort to diminish the tremendous power which State Highway Directors now have over state government and politics” by reducing the…
White House file memo noting the decisions made at a November 3, 1970 meeting between White House Domestic Affairs Council, Office of Management and Budget, and Department of Transportation staff to come up with a…
June 18, 1970 memo from White House aide Henry Cashen to chief domestic policy aide John Ehrlichman updating Ehrlichman on the status of various White House and Nixon Administration transportation proposals, including a possible proposal…
November 16, 1978 memo to President Carter asking him to settle a disagreement between DOT, OMB, and the White House Domestic Policy Staff on whether or not to insist on building the originally-envisioned 101-mile DC…
Memo from OMB to President Carter dated June 24, 1977 requesting that he approve two amendments to the FY 1978 budget request adding an additional $112 million for WMATA (the DC Metro system) “to prevent…
June 2, 1966 memo from White House senior policy adviser Joseph Califano, Jr. to President Johnson that forwards a May 31, 1966 letter to the President from his adviser on District of Columbia affairs, Charles…
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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