Harry Truman: “No. Somebody may have recommended him, and I haven't--the letter may not yet have reached me.”

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.

It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

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