Harry Truman: “I am strongly in favor of better organization and greater efficiency throughout the Executive branch.”

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.

Mrs. Beth Campbell Short may be appointed to a permanent competitive position in the classified civil service of the United States without regard to the competitive provisions of the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.