Earlier this year I appointed a Missouri Basin Survey Commission headed by James E. Lawrence of Lincoln, Nebraska, compo...
It is the job of this Commission to recommend the best way to complete this great development program.
We have been working to develop the whole country.
It is an integral part of the development of the whole Missouri basin.
I appreciate very much the privilege of being here and taking part in these ceremonies.
All this development work we are doing here in the West has come about because this country has a government that believ...
I cannot conceive that the people of this country would entrust their future to a party which has that kind of record.
Thank you, Governor. I appreciate that introduction.
I have high hopes for the good that it will do in this whole region.
This dam will be a wonderful thing for Montana.
I am glad to see work start on Tiber Dam.
We are creating assets for the people of the United States when we make expenditures for the development of these great ...
The Missouri basin contains a sixth of the area of the United States.
I say, further, that the Republicans in the 81st and 82d Congresses tried to pitchfork the farmer over and over again.
They don't say that it may take 10 years to turn that corner.
Today, the Federal crop insurance program is still operated by those same farmer-elected committeemen.
I said in 1948 that the 80th Congress stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back by crippling the grain storage program.
The facts are that a majority of Republicans have opposed farm legislation not only recently, but for 30 years.