Harry Truman: “I am a firm believer in the general principle that our defense establishment should be headed by a civilian.”

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

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

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.