Advisor to "nearly every president on transportation since Truman"
According to
this article
I have now been credited as advisor to "nearly every president on transportation since Truman". For the record, I was born in the Lyndon Johnson administration (and near the end of that), not the Andrew Johnson administration.
Reference:
Cars at crux of tension between Metro and suburbs
FRESH LOOK — Transit road map hinges on city, county, region agreement
By Nick Budnick
The Portland Tribune Nov 27, 2006
http://www.portlandtribune.com/rethinking/story.php?story_id=116425643065543400