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Lyndon Johnson: “The seas are not our only recourse and that we aim to make it feasible to mine, desalt, and put to productive use the…”

On the recordAugust 10, 1965
The seas are not our only recourse and that we aim to make it feasible to mine, desalt, and put to productive use the brackish groundwater which underlies more than 2 million square miles of the United States.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Saline Water Conversion Act

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