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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 549616, member: 15062&quot;]I should have added that Eisenhower was the man most responsible for the creation of the Interstate Highway system which was modeled on the German Autobahns.&nbsp; Created in the middle of the Cold War, the highway system was primarily a system to be used to evacuate major cities in the event of an attack and to facilitate the movement of military troops and equipment to where they might be needed.&nbsp; With 40 years hindsight this has had the negative affect of pretty much destroying the passenger rail system.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Eisenhower also championed the cause of desegregation as in <i>Brown v Board of Education</i> which found the concept of &quot;Separate but Equal&quot; to be unconstitutional, and he signed the first Civil Rights acts into law.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, he promoted the &quot;Eisenhower Doctrine&quot; which set forth the principle that military force could be used to stop the spread of Communism in foreign countries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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