Biographical information; the Alaskan Highway; the interstate highway program under DDE; the Highway Trust Fund; improvements in highway construction; the issues of safety and beautification; billboards and junk yards; relations with the Park Service; the controversy over taking a corner of Brackenridge Park in San Antonio to improve roads; creating the Department of Transportation; dispute between mass transit interests and the highway programs; the War on Poverty and road programs; the PPBS system; LBJ and the highway program.
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb
Citation
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 1, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-turnerf-19681112-1-74-258