It did, at least, create some new infrastructure, a whole new kind of infrastructure, on the same order as the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System.
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The shocking state of large swaths of the existing Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which our late president rightly implemented as a Cold War hedge to ensure rapid military mobilization after a surprise attack or for speedy logistics re-supply in the event of regional civil emergencies.
President Dwight Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System had positive multiplier effects for the American economy.
The Recovery Act that we put forward had one of the biggest investments in infrastructure since Eisenhower started the Interstate Highway System.
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The Recovery Act included the most serious investment in our infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
To put this another way, roughly three-quarters of Recovery Act highway funding is already being invested as part of the largest investment in the nation's infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System back in the 1950s.
Because we know we can't build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower built an interstate highway system in the 1950s.
It was Eisenhower who launched the Interstate Highway System and new investment in scientific research.
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And a growing number seem to be suspicious of any federal involvement at all in infrastructure investments, despite the fact that it was a Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, who created the interstate highway system in the 1950s with large dollops of federal cash.
Dwight Eisenhower's support for the Interstate highway system was rooted in a disastrous transcontinental convoy that bogged down on dilapidated roads early in his army career.
Roads and railways are being upgraded as part of the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower half a century ago initiated the Interstate Highway System.
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The National Defence Highway Act actually is very interesting because the entire system of interstate highways was developed under the Eisenhower administration.
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So President Eisenhower helped make it possible to build an Interstate Highway System, and that, too, transformed the nation -- as much as the railways had.
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America has a grand tradition of national planning, from Thomas Jefferson's vision for roads and canals in 1808, which influenced policy for the next century (and led to America's first transcontinental railway) to Dwight Eisenhower's Federal Highway-Aid Act of 1956, which created the interstate system.
It was a Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, a proud son of Kansas -- (applause) -- who started the Interstate Highway System, and doubled down on science and research to stay ahead of the Soviets.
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