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Harry Truman: “We built the Bureau of Reclamation's great new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana not as an isolated structure, but as a part…”

On the recordJanuary 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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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Land and Water Resources.

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