05/19/1962
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"If you have this ability and I believe you do, I'm not suggesting this isn't accurate, I'm very grateful that this is accurate, and I'm very grateful to the Corps."
"Yet while you are here advocating, as we all are, for affordable housing, our Federal Government, through FEMA, is working as hard as it can to increase the cost of flood insurance."
"The Mississippi River and Tributaries Project has prevented more than $1.5 trillion in flood damages since 1928."
"It just makes no sense to me if we can quantify the losses that would be prevented by building a flood control project that we wouldn't make that one of the determining factors in the cost-benefit ana..."