Harry Truman: “I hope you will listen, and I hope you will do what I am asking you to do.”

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

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 venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.

I believe that the report is of great value.