Herbert Hoover actually said...

Modern highways and motor vehicles provide a basic and elastic system of communication which is most readily adjustable to the economic needs of areas hitherto poorly supplied by transportation.

Context

Message to the Second Pan American Highway Congress.

08/15/1929

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