Harry Truman: “I am certainly highly pleased at this wonderful reception.”

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.

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.

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

The National Security Medal may be awarded to any person, without regard to nationality, including members of the armed forces of the United States, for distinguished achievement or outstanding contribution on or after July 26, 1947, in…