Now, im not going to let my government colleagues off the hook, because we also used to see a lot of senior government officials on the Government Coordinating Council side of the house engaged frequently in that business. Ive seen a diminishment of senior level engagement over the last decade. We need to fix that problem in two ways. Ceos and coos need to get supportive of this, so do senior government officials. We need tough decisions and risk outcomes to be decided and thats not going to happen at the gs 14, 15 level. Its got to be higher than that. If were going to solve some of the nations most critical problems, like aging infrastructure, and the impacts of climate change, thats not going to be done at the level we currently are structured to deal with those kind of things. Its got to be a high order type thing. I also want to say, that at the state, local, and federal level, tremendous difference in terms of private sector engagement in Emergency Operation centers and Informati
Transport like what eisenhower had, which was one of the things that apparently convinced him of the need for a system of defense highways. Im not aware that there was any use of interstate 70 for those purposes. It seems to have been, as far as the evidence i have been able to find. There was a lot of talk at those times about the highways being defense highways. The official name for them, for the interstate system when it was created in 1956, the National System of interstate and defense highways. Thank you. Two questions. I believe i read or heard that the interstate through Glenwood Canyon cost more than the entire rest of the interstate 70 cost total. I dont know if thats true. But i frankly would not be surprised at all. The cost as you probably know it kept ballooning as the design changed, as they ran into as Highway Builders always do, into unexpected geological obstacles. I would not be surprised, but i dont know the dollar values. Another question about president eisenhower