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December 6, 2008 by John H. Taylor | Filed Under Nixon Administration figures 

The Boston Globe’s Marty Nolan writes on the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Volpe, governor of Massachusetts and, under RN, Secretary of Transportation and ambassador to Italy:

As a Republican governor of Massachusetts, he neither ignored nor defied the Democratic Legislature, but worked with it to improve higher education and mental health programs. As US secretary of transportation, his record is relevant today. He began as a proud advocate of American highways, then developed doubts. He stopped several interstates, boosted mass transit, and saved passenger trains. Without John Volpe, Amtrak would be a mirage.



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