Eisenhower's 1919 Army Convoy Took 62 Days to Cross America

Описание: On July 7, 1919, a US Army convoy of 81 vehicles left Washington, DC, to cross the country on the Lincoln Highway. A young officer named Dwight Eisenhower went along. The trip covered 3,251 miles and took 62 days, about 6 miles per hour, because the convoy kept getting stuck in mud and sand. Thirty-seven years later, in 1956, Eisenhower was president, and he signed the law that created the Interstate Highway System while recovering in a hospital.

This is the true story of the 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, the Lincoln Highway and the road trip that showed how bad American roads were.

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Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Narration is an AI voice. Every story is researched from historical sources.

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