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Lyndon Johnson: “Automotive vehicles traveling over those roads account for more than 90 percent of this country's personal travel.”

On the recordAugust 16, 1966
Automotive vehicles traveling over those roads account for more than 90 percent of this country's personal travel.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 3735—National Highway Week, 1966

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