Harry Truman actually said...

Texas, of course, before it became a State and while it was an independent republic, had whatever rights then existed in the submerged lands...

I am for both of them and always have been.

If the Congress wishes to enact legislation confirming the States in the ownership of what is already theirs--that is, the lands and resourc...

It has been strongly urged upon me that the case of Texas differs from that of the other coastal States, and that special considerations ent...