Harry Truman actually said...

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...

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

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal a...