The President's News Conference
01/03/1951
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We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.