Harry Truman: “As I have told you once before, I don't want you to persecute anybody.”

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

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

It is my fervent hope as I leave the Office of the Presidency that recent reckless attacks which can destroy that great asset will subside and that we will continue to go forward in creating a skilled corps of men and women with a public…