“Following the first World War, the U.S. Army even sent a convoy of trucks coast to coast across the United States to highlight the need for a national road. One of the officers leading the convoy was the then-Captain Dwight Eisenhower...The 1919 trip from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco took the army convoy sixty-two days. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower would sing into law the bill creating our present interstate highway system.” (46)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)