04/26/1962
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"Today I have signed S. 107, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Interior to construct the San Juan-Chama Reclamation Project, and the Navajo Irrigation Project."
"Confidence demonstrated by so great a number of South Carolinians is a great source of satisfaction to all of those who work with you here in the Capital for South Carolina and the country."
"The San Juan-Chama Reclamation Project will provide water supplies needed to permit continued economic growth and development and stabilize an existing agricultural economy in the Rio Grande Basin of ..."
"I emphasized the importance of water resources development to the Nation, and expressed this administration's commitment to a sound and orderly program of new projects to meet accumulated needs."