Harry Truman: “I understand that a good many of the steel companies are ready to settle with the union on all the issues.”

They should be strong enough to see that unified multiple-purpose development is planned for, and works operated harmoniously in each basin-wide comprehensive system.

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.

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 system.