Harry Truman actually said...

The excess-land provisions of the law provide the legal mechanism for assuring that the benefits of the irrigation systems will inure to family-size farming enterprises.

Context

Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to the San Luis Valley Project, Colorado.

10/28/1949

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