Harry Truman: “Civil defense is a responsibility which begins with the individual.”

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

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoniously in each basin-wide comprehensive system.

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.