The President's News Conference
09/26/1951
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I AM withholding my approval from S. 1385, a bill providing that the excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws shall not apply ...
The excess-land provisions of the law provide the legal mechanism for assuring that the benefits of the irrigation systems will inure to fam...
It does not seem to me to be desirable or necessary to enact a bill of this sweeping character in order to achieve whatever corrective actio...
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to celebrate F...