{"id":183,"date":"2009-01-06T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/news\/2009\/01\/06\/obamas-eisenhower-moment\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T07:01:36","slug":"obamas-eisenhower-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/obamas-eisenhower-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Eisenhower moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lewis, author of <em>Divided Highways<\/em>, argues that we should learn the lessons from the story of how Eisenhower created and funded the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s and apply them towards Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus program.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Eisenhower] knew firsthand the need for better roads. As a young lieutenant colonel, he traveled in 1919 over the Lincoln Highway in the Army&#8217;s first transcontinental caravan, a journey that lasted 62 days and sometimes required oxen to pull the trucks through mires of mud.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Lewis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-lewis26-2008dec26,0,1661524.story\">Eisenhower&#8217;s roads to prosperity<\/a>, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, December 26, 2008 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lewis, author of Divided Highways, argues that we should learn the lessons from the story of how Eisenhower created&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}