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World War I was to confirm that kind of need. France had a magnificent system of highways, and U.S. troops sped to the war front quickly. After the war, a U.S. Army motor convoy left Washington, D.C., on July 7, 1919, for San Francisco, following the Lincoln Highway across the country. It took 62 days to cover 3,251 miles. Intended to publicize the motorized branch of the Army, obtain experience and data on the roads, show the need for transcontinental highways, and recruit new troops, the trip was a disaster because of road conditions.
Lt. Col. Dwight Eisenhower, part of the convoy, always remembered it. That is why decades later, as President, he strongly backed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the Interstate System.
The fourth constitutional criterion, to promote the general welfare of the nation, was covered when Congress noted that although heavy farm freighting usually occurred after harvest
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