Harry Truman actually said...

In the execution of a comprehensive program for the development of the Mississippi River Basin, protection from floods is of such urgency th...

I therefore urge that this Congress undertake a program which will provide for the substantial completion within ten years of the flood cont...

A comprehensive program for flood control in the entire Mississippi River Basin is essential.

The economy of controlling floods as compared with the cost of continuing under the handicap of their disruptive force has been amply demons...