Harry Truman: “The Secretary of State. It will be a message of welcome to the United States.”

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.

We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.

They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoniously in each basin-wide comprehensive system.

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.