The Federal Highway Act of 1956 traces back to a brutal 1919 army convoy that nearly broke Dwight Eisenhower. As a young officer, he slogged across the country on roads that barely existed, dealing with broken axles and muddy quagmires that slowed everything to a crawl. He never forgot that trip, and decades later, as president, he did something about it.
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It's American Rewind.
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The journey took two months because the roads were practically non existent.
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Trucks broke axles, sank into quagmires and constantly stalled.
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Decades later, that man became President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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He never forgot the misery of that cross country trip.
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It changed the look and feel of the American landscape and it stands as one of the largest public works projects in American history.
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Millions of us still use this massive interconnected highway system to this day.
