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On the recordMay 24, 1965
Even before there was a United States, people of this land were using and developing its water resources.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Federal Water Resources Research Program.

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