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| Date | Document Name & Details | Documents |
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| 3 September 1946 | Executive Order 9775 Establishing the Federal Committee On Highway Safety President Harry S Truman | HTML - 1 page |
| 13 May 1947 | Executive Order 9851 Adding Certain Lands to the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway President Harry S Truman | HTML - 1 page |
| 9 February 1948 | Special Message to the Congress on Highway Construction. To: The United States Congress From: President Harry S Truman | Letter - 1 page |
| 2 December 1948 | Letter to Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Concerning Cooperation by the Broadcasting Industry in the Highway Safety Program. To: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Alfred P. Sloan Foundation From: President Harry S Truman | Letter - 1 page |
| 29 January 1949 | Letter to the Governors Convening the Highway Safety Conference. From: President Harry S Truman | Letter - 1 page |
| 30 August 1950 | Letter to the General Chairman of the President's Highway Safety Conference. To: General Philip B. Fleming, President's Highway Safety Conference From: President Harry S Truman | Letter - 1 page |
| 14 April 1952 | Letter to the Secretary of Commerce on Highway Safety. To: Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce From: President Harry S Truman | Letter - 1 page |
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Excerpt from Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. (October 28, 1948)
[8.] BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT (Rear platform, 2:23 p.m.)
Thank you very much, thank you very much. This is certainly a wonderful reception. Nobody could ask for anything better than this, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
You know, when I was a kid, about 17 or 18 years old, I saw the first horseless carriage in Independence, Mo., and there were just about this many people out to look at it. And that was a Locomobile that was made right here in Bridgeport, and it was a horseless carriage. It looked just like an old buggy, and it ran with steam. But there is quite a change now in that automobile business from what it was in those days, and that's true of the age in which we live. We are living in an age with which we haven't yet caught up, and I am doing everything I can to keep the country going forward instead of trying to turn the dock back to that old steam horseless carriage we had in 1902...