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Show Part One In September, 1952, President Truman visited the new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana. As he gazed out from the gigantic structure, which was twice as high as the United States Capitol, he told those assembled about him: "Take a look at this. Take a second look. Take a third look. It is the last one you will see if the Republi- cans come into power." x The election two months later did send the Re- publicans into power, and Mr Truman's words were not forgotten. The Democrats quoted them as a dire prediction, pointing out that no new reclamation starts were on the books. The Republicans called them an erroneous statement, adding that reclamation in the West was a Republican invention and would never be neglected in g. o. p. budgets. President Truman must have known when he spoke at Hungry Horse Dam that another, and biggest, power and reclamation project ever conceived in the fanciful minds of Bureau of Reclamation schemers was on the books It must also be presumed he was aware that a detailed report, or plan, of this enormous develop- |