One such compact, involving the states of New York, New Jersey, andConnecticut, created the InterstateSanitationCommissionto abatepollution in the watersof the New Yorkharborarea.
"We're the only city that has a city center airport where tourists and business people can fly right to within walking distance of the major venues, " said John Morand of the Toronto HarborCommission.
Promptly after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created a high-powered commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, to investigate how such a catastrophic surprise attack could have occurred.