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Lyndon Johnson: “We have doubled the miles of paved streets and roads in the past 20 years, and our unequalled highway network…”

On the recordAugust 16, 1966
We have doubled the miles of paved streets and roads in the past 20 years, and our unequalled highway network, constantly being expanded and improved, makes us the most mobile country in the history of man.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3735—National Highway Week, 1966

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