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The President's News Conference on the Budget

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Jan 18, 1953

We built the Bureau of Reclamation's great new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana not as an isolated structure, but as a part of the Columbia Basin system.

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Dec 10, 1952

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

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Dec 3, 1952

I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.

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