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On the recordMarch 21, 1966
The complex task of creating and maintaining a merchant marine adequate to our needs for peacetime commerce, and sufficient for defense purposes, requires the efforts of government, management and labor and the support of all Americans.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3708—National Maritime Day, 1966

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