The President's News Conference
05/14/1945
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The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.
Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.
I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.