Harry Truman: “I have no special announcements for you this morning.”

I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.

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.

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.