Patton with Harry Truman in Berlin, Germany, 1945.īut what about President Truman? He loved cars and roads his whole life. (See Public Roads, Summer 1996, for a discussion of President Eisenhower's role.) Generals Dwight D. He made the Interstate System one of his Administration's top priorities and continued to promote the idea even after he had signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. He saw the German autobahn in operation during and after World War II.
Army convoy that crossed the United States in 1919. Eisenhower deserves that title as much as anyone. One of the little-known quirks of history is that Harry Truman could have been the Father of the Interstate System.
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