The Clean Rivers Demonstration Program I recommend has four requirements:

Pollution touches us all. We are at the same time polluters and sufferers from pollution.

I hope when we meet here again that we'll have more trees and more flowers here on this somewhat rather sacred spot.

This administration hopes to provide the leadership for an environment that is free of the contamination which pollutes the water that we drink and the air that we breathe.

I have called for a major effort to beautify our highways and roadsides, and to construct scenic and recreational roads.

It must restore beauty where it has already been destroyed.

The shade of a tree and the beauty of its branches must be always within the reach of our people, young and old, wherever they live.

It is Mrs. Johnson's wish, as it is my own, that the planting of these trees may be the occasion for us all to dedicate our efforts anew to preserving our heritage of 'America the Beautiful.'

In your child's lifetime, if not in yours, and I think in yours, but in your child's lifetime we are going to be using the water from the sea to make the deserts bloom.

I am going to leave with Roy now in just a moment and I won't be seeing you any more, but I am coming back to these wonderful, happy, smiling faces, and this dry air and this fine sunshine because it is good and it invigorates you.

Polluted water is wasted water, and America cannot afford this waste.

Three things--and three things only-sustain life on this planet.

I have devoted much of my 30 years of public career to the conservation of America's natural resources.

Actions deferred are all too often opportunities lost, particularly in safeguarding our natural resources.

We will flash the green light for river basin development.

This valley is a great natural resource, not of the State of California only, but of the United States.

Today, in a closely knit tumultuous world, the key to the future lies in water.

Well, I will tell you what first convinced me. The first thing we need is a lot of rain for a long time.