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cities where the congestion problem has reached such proportions as to require immediate attention and corrective action. Airline, airport, and general aviation leaders should promptly organize themselves into cooperative groups and seek to develop hard answers to the individual local problems. This should similarly be carried through, once the local dialogue begins, on a national level.

Faced with these problems, it is a good thing for avaition that a Department of Transportation has now been created. Most of the responsibility for solving these difficulties will fall, as it should, on the aviation community, but the Department of Transportation can, and will, play a major role in providing the national leadership necessary to get the work done efficiently. 

Basically, the job of the Department of Transportation is to maintain constant surveillance over the total transportation system, in order to be sure that it is at all times capable of meeting the needs of the nation's economy for transportation service. If it finds deficiencies in the system, either on a short-term or a long-term basis, the Department must provide inspiration and encouragement for the development of timely solutions.

It did not take Secretary Boyd long to identify growing airport inadequacy as a major potential defect in our transportation system. Teaming up with Chairman Murphy of the Civil Aeronautics Board and General McKee of the Federal Aviation Administration as the Chairman of a presidentially-appointed Airport Task Force, these anticipated deficiencies were tackled.

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