Remarks to a Delegation from the United Jewish Appeal.
02/24/1946
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The economy of controlling floods as compared with the cost of continuing under the handicap of their disruptive force has been amply demons...
Measures for flood control should be integrated with plans for the use and conservation of water resources for other purposes.
The choice is ours. We can sit idly by--or almost as bad, resort to the false economy of feeble and inadequate measures--while these preciou...
I therefore urge that this Congress undertake a program which will provide for the substantial completion within ten years of the flood cont...