Anything you want to get done in reclamation and public works, you had better see Carl Hayden, for he knows everybody in the Budget, he knows every Senator on this committee, and he knows every Representative on the same committee in the House.
Remarks at a Luncheon Given in His Honor by the Secretary of the Interior
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Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.
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.
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