Harry Truman: “I do not believe such an action would be in the national interest, and I do not see how any President could fail to…”

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.

I believe that the report is of great value.

I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.

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.