Harry Truman: “This order shall become effective as of September 1, 1947.”

I believe that the report is of great value.

I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.

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.

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