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The White House on April 1 released identical letters sent by the President to the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the need for accelerating the completion of the Inter-American Highway. Following is the text of the President's letter to the Vice President, together with a statement on the same subject which Mr. Nixon made to correspondents at Panamá on February 26, [1955].
From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading me...