1955 White House Internal Debates on Clay Commission Report
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
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:…
By Jeff Davis
This is a two-page document dated February 8, 1956 from the Office of Tax Policy at the Treasury Department. It is a draft legislative provision creating an “Interstate Highway System Fund” to separate highway user…
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file is a one-page memo to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey from Dan Throop Smith, head of tax analysis at Treasury, dated November 4, 1955, about a meeting the previous day where Commerce Secretary…
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file contains documents relating to the October 28, 1955 Cabinet meeting. This was another meeting conducted in the absence of President Eisenhower due to his September 24, 1955 heart attack.
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file contains records from the Eisenhower Library on the Cabinet meeting of September 30, 1955, which was historic in several respects. as it was the first Cabinet meeting conducted in Eisenhower’s absence -…
By Jeff Davis
This file contains several documents relating to the Eisenhower Administration’s revised December 1955 Interstate highway funding proposal (after Congress had rejected the first proposal in July 1955).
By Jeff Davis
This PDF file is an exchange of letters between Senator Albert Gore (D-TN) and President Eisenhower in the fall of 1959.
By Jeff Davis
This is a PDF file of a December 19, 1960 paper entitled “Coordination of Federal Metropolitan Area Development Activities” produced by the White House’s ad hoc Interagency Committee on Metropolitan Area Problems.

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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