Harry Truman: “I want to call your attention particularly to this memo sheet, which sets out as nearly as possible what the budget…”

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.

That is his duty. That is his duty.

It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.