Eisenhower
The Public Record
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 1245), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
I think you are on a job that needs to be done, and I know you will do it well.
If there is one enthusiastic booster for international travel in the world, I would certainly be numbered among those who come close to the top.
I think you people are doing not only a useful but an indispensable part of the task in bringing it about.
I realize that these representatives here really represent some 20 million people, and I am told there are 31 countries here represented, which makes it a truly significant body.
But on top of that, we are interested in getting the entire Pan American Highway completed so that travel north and south is easier.
We like to see roads springing up everywhere because we are certain that as you people from all countries come to visit us, and we come to meet you, there is going to be nothing but good come out of it.
In this country, for one reason or another, we have, possibly, been more backward in the building of roads we need than we should have been.





