I recommended that the Congress increase the gas tax by 1 ½ cents to be effective July 1, 1959.
Eisenhower: “I recommended that the Congress increase the gas tax by 1 ½ cents to be effective July 1, 1959.”
On the recordOctober 8, 1959
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Letter to Senator Gore Concerning the Interstate Highway Program.
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