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proposed interstate overpass, supported by the Chamber of Commerce, city and state transportation planners, The Times-Picayune, and most politicians most of the time.Local architectural historian Samuel Wilson Jr. claimed the historic Quarter served not only its residents' sense of history in place but also the need of American citizens to stand in Jackson Square on the site where the Louisiana Purchase was signed in 1803 and face the Mississippi River unencumbered by a looming expressway (albeit by a levee). 2 In 1965, another expressway opponent wrote to The Washington Post on behalf of "the civilized citizens of New Orleans, who happen to know something of classic urban traditions elsewhere."They are, wrote Walter B. Lowrey, "focusing their attention with great interest . . .upon the Nation's Capital, where the President, the First Lady and the Secretary of the Interior have recently made eloquent declarations of concern about a physical

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