The thing that will tell whether it will have to be expanded or not, is whether we get this reconversion and production program over, so that the national income will stay at the level which is necessary to meet this anticipated revenue.
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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 system.
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.
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
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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