Praised as the biggest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System has been ... A young Lieutenant Colonel named Dwight D. Eisenhower would experience firsthand the ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower created major infrastructure, including the Interstate Highway program, established in 1956, which created a 41,000-mile road system. Eisenhower dispatched federal troops to ...

West Point graduate Dwight ... Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. He also signed legislation in 1956 creating the nation’s interstate highway ...