This Department of Transportation that we are establishing will have a mammoth task—to untangle, to coordinate, and to build the
national transportation system for America that America is deserving of. And because the job is great, I intend to appoint a strong man to
ill it. The new Secretary will be my principal adviser and my strong right arm on all transportation matters. I hope he will be the best
equipped man in this country to give leadership to the country, to the President, to the Cabinet, to the Congress It is the second major
-tep in bringing our Government up to date with the times. Last year this Congress established the Department of Housing and Urban
Affairs. Today you bring 31 agencies and their bureaus, going in all directions, into a single Department of Transportation under the
guidance and leadership of a Secretary of Transportation."
- President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
The excerpt is from a 1966 speech by Lyndon B. Johnson about the creation of the Department of Transportation, a presidential cabinet
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cabinet departments that have been added since the 1960s which illustrate that point.
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