Harry Truman actually said...

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

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

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...

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.