Harry Truman actually said...

An orderly program of appropriations for prosecution of this work on a sustained and comprehensive basis is essential.

Special Message to the Congress on Flood Control in the Mississippi River Basin.

07/15/1947

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We have here tonight, Mr. President, what you might call enough representation to be the whole Government of the United States.

There is, happily, a long history of friendship between the Philippines and the United States.

Again our two peoples will be found on the same side in the struggle, which they must accept as a challenge rather than as a threat.

I have an extreme and very close interest in the Philippine Republic, for the simple reason that I happened to be--by the accident of death-...