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fieiorc prcscnung uus background Robertson recalled that one of his own major political undertakings had been improve' ment of the Virginia State Hip* : way system. He recounted how he ‘ had worked with Senator Harry * F. Byrd, when they were desk-1 mates in the Virginia Senate to set up the first highway system for their State and to have it financed/ on a strictly pay-as-you-go basis. - “It is my conviction,”„he said, “that Virginia’s present system of farm-to-market roads as well as ' arterial highways, gives solid proof of the argument we offered three decades ago that we could get .good roads for less money by payinz for them as they were built. .’ in quoting from Andrew Jack" ■son, Robertson said he hoped * “those colleagues with whom 1 , have sometimes disagreed as to policies involving the Tennessee Valley Authority and other proposed authorities for river valley development” would give particular attention to the views Jackson had expressed as to whether the Federal Government should undertake improvements of • ‘ Primarily local benefit i He said he associated himself ■ with Jackson's statement that although be had “zeal in the cause
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