The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch
08/26/1966
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
This is a time for action.
Three of our cities, ships at sea, the oil fields of other lands already depend upon desalting plants.
Ours is really an open land, an open society with no walls around it, nothing to hide within it, and we want the world and we want Americans...
We have new resources of abundant energy that can provide the power that this will require.