Harry Truman: “I desire that the executive branch furnish the Congress with all further information needed to permit a complete…”

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

The experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance are essential to prevent irreparable losses.

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.