The President's News Conference at Key West
03/17/1949
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I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.
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...
We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.
Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.