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And my reasoning was that
if we had been connected by land

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instead of separated by water,
for instance,

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the Big Island and Oʻahu
were one land mass,

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we'd have long ago built a road
from Honolulu to Hilo and so forth.

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But merely because we're separated
by water, we just sat back and said

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there's nothing we can do about this.

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And I said, take example from Alaska
or from these other places,

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certainly there is something you can do,
and it's an obligation on the part

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of the state or the government to do that,
just as it's an obligation

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for the government to build a road
to connect cities and things.

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This is no more than an
extension of a road,

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it would be like a bridge.

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And it's an obligation of government
to do that because government, in fact,

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the federal highway system was developed
because the federal government recognized

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that it was an obligation on the part
of government to provide transportation

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access to sources of employment,
access to your commodities and goods,

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and that's what this is
and the state should do it.

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So I really got working on that,
and with these people from the Union,

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and their knowledge.

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And then I got together with a man
from Seattle who had designed the system

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for the Seattle area and also had designed
the Blackball system for Alaska,

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and got him down.

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And we really went
into this in great depth, and we designed

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a ship that would be suitable for these
waters that would carry on it

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400 or 500 people and say,
150 cars and trucks and it was oceangoing,

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and it was fin-stabilized
and everything else.

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And it could have been gotten
in those days for about

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$6 million for one ship.

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(Daniel W. Tuttle, Jr.)
And you had hoped, I think, for more help

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from the federal government
because this time, Mainland-wise,

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they were building
interstate highway systems right?

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Yes.
And I got the help

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from the federal government.

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Went to the maritime administration
and they came out and they

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studied the system.