Harry Truman: “I made my position perfectly clear in the message, and the whole legislative end of the thing is with the Congress.”

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

It is my fervent hope as I leave the Office of the Presidency that recent reckless attacks which can destroy that great asset will subside and that we will continue to go forward in creating a skilled corps of men and women with a public…

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.

Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.