Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

It was in this spirit that those who preceded you in the great Northwest, in only a century and a half, turned an unsettled wilderness into an inland empire--an empire vastly enriched by this gigantic structure which today we so proudly name the McNary Dam.

Context

Address at the Dedication of McNary Dam, Walla Walla, Washington

09/22/1954

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