Harry Truman: “Let us keep this partnership of the people ready and at full strength.”

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.

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.

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.