Resources / Historical Documents Archive
1959 Federal-Aid Highway Act – White House Enrolled Bill File
August 12,2019 This is a 42-page page PDF of the Eisenhower White House's "enrolled bill file" on H.R. 8678, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959, prepared by the Executive Clerk in cooperation of the Bureau of the...August 7 1969 White House Press Briefing on Mass Transit Bill
July 11,2019 This is the transcript of an August 7, 1969 White House press briefing by Under Secretary of Transportation James Beggs, UMTA Administrator Carlos Villarreal, and White House urban policy adviser Pat...July 1969 Cabinet Subcommittee Mass Transit Paper
July 11,2019 This is a formal report of the Subcommittee on Transportation of the Cabinet Council on Urban Affairs in July 1969 on the Nixon Administration's public transportation proposal.July 1969 Cherington Memo Advocating Federal Auto Registration Fee
July 11,2019 This is a July 10, 1969 memo from Assistant Transportation Secretary Paul Cherington to Secretary Volpe advocating that a federal excise tax on privately owned automobiles registered in urban areas...July 3 1969 DOT Transit Bill Options Memo
July 11,2019 This is a July 3, 1969 DOT memo relating the results of an internal July 2 meeting to discuss spending and revenue options for the mass transit bill.June 30 1969 UMTA Status Memo on Mass Transit Bill
July 11,2019 This is a June 30, 1969 memo from Urban Mass Transit Administration staff outlining decisions made on the mass transit bill at a high-level June 25 meeting between Transportation Secretary Volpe and...May 1, 1969 DOT Decision Memo on Mass Transit Bill
July 11,2019 This is a May 1, 1969 memo to Transportation Secretary Volpe outlining the revisions he had ordered in the draft mass transit bill on April 25 and asking for approval of the revised legislation.April 1969 DOT Decision Memo on Mass Transit Bill
July 11,2019 This is a memo to Transportation Secretary Volpe dated April 25, 1969 outlining the proposed mass transit reauthorization bill, listing the objections of some DOT senior staff, and asking the...1969 UMTA Task Force Report on Transit Reauthorization
July 11,2019 This is an April 15, 1969 report of an internal Urban Mass Transportation Administration report framing the issues at stake for the forthcoming urban mass transportation reauthorization proposal and...Nixon 1969 Message to Congress on Airports and Airways
June 18,2019 This is House Document 91-130, the message that President Richard Nixon transmitted to Congress on June 16, 1969 to accompany and explain proposed legislation to create a significant new investment...
Someone once asked me if all of the transportation policy history articles I have written for ETW were collected in one place. They were not, so now they are. Multi-Part Series: A Conversation With Alan Boyd, the First U.S. Secretary of Transportation Part 1 (February...
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