Harry Truman: “It is a tragic record.”

No more than one National Security Medal shall be awarded to any one person, but for subsequent services justifying an award, a suitable device may be awarded to be worn with the Medal.

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

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

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.