The NationalDefenceHighway Act actually is very interesting because the entire system of interstate highways was developed under the Eisenhower administration.
The Higher Education Policy Act, the acts of 1958, '59, just like the NationalDefenceHighway Act of 1956 were vehicles by which public goods were generated under the rubric of nationaldefence.
But if you go back to the debates in Congress over why those investments were important you see that it was all about, according to the individual members of Congress who were supporting the NationalDefenceHighway Act, it was all about getting munitions rapidly from Boston to San Diego and to Dallas and everywhere else in the event of a national emergency.