Harry Truman

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Dear Colonel Johnson: The transportation facilities of the nation are now called upon for the most gigantic task in all the history of transportation.

I will certainly do it if it becomes necessary.

No, I won't veto it.

I told the Department of Justice to file the suit.

The Members of the House and the Senate are grossly underpaid.

And I think he will be.

I want to announce the resignation of Grover B. Hill as Under Secretary of Agriculture, and the appointment of John B. Hutson.

I will discuss that at a little later date.

This time the job is to be done in ten months.

As a Member of the Senate, I was always against that bill.

I think they should have a salary commensurate with the work they do, and I have always thought that.

I extend to you my own gratitude and that of a grateful people for the masterful way in which you have accomplished this monumental task.

In order to do this job most of our soldiers will be transported the full length of the American continent.

It required every transportation ingenuity to assemble our armies in Europe over a period of four years.

I am asking you to extend my congratulations to all of our transportation agencies--and their millions of workers--on the results they have accomplished.

I am exceedingly happy over the Bretton Woods--345 to 18.