Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Planning, building, and maintaining the system requires constant and detailed cooperation between Federal, State and local governments, and ...

And you asked only that you might leave when a permanent director had been selected.

Our unequalled highway network, constantly being expanded and improved, makes us the most mobile country in the history of man

We must continue to plan our highway system so that it will contribute to the rational use of urban space as well as to pleasant and conveni...