Gen. Colin Powell was the honored speaker at the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s 50th anniversary of the Interstate System dinner in late June.
At the event he talked about how President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the creator of the interstate, signed his commission as a young second lieutenant in 1958, how Eisenhower himself was inspired to push for the intense network of roadways and how life was like as a minority before and after the interstate system was complete.