Harry Truman: “I commend to the consideration of my fellow citizens the reflection that our Army is a protector of those values and…”

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.

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

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.

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.