Harry Truman: “It will be in the form of an Executive order and will be sent to the Congress.”

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.

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.