When Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, Appalachia was isolated from much of the country.
The Appalachia Development Highway System was created in that very spirit, aiming to open up rural America to the world.
Shelley and I have to keep a state running, too.
we need your help.
the needs of our little State, rural States have so much.
This is a period of time that they either make it or break it and it's been going on for 51 years.
we'd like to finish some that have been going on for so long.
without some assistance and some help, rural America... only percent is getting helped.
Corridor H is a corridor that John Kennedy made happen and I'm taking you back a ways.
It's not a political football. It's basically an American problem that we all have and we're working together on that.
So we're facing the same, if not worse?