Harry Truman: “They eventually pay themselves out.”

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

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They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoniously in each basin-wide comprehensive 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.