Chapter 2: A Crusade for Safety

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• Alternative Title:
  President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety Chapter 2: A Crusade for Safety
• Creators:
  Weingroff, Richard F.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributors:
  Seabron, Sonquela
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Federal Government Highways Highway Safety History United States. President (1953-1961: Eisenhower)
• Series:
  FHWA Highway History Website Articles
• Resource Type:
  Web Document
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Chapter 2 of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety describes the balance between federal and state governments and how Eisenhower navigated this balance in relation to highway safety. It discusses federal efforts to promote and enforce highway safety as well as safety features available in cars at the time.
• Content Notes:
  The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76419/dot_76419_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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