Harry Truman: “I hope it will be done inside 2 or 3 years.”

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.

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.

Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.

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