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Lyndon Johnson: “The air that is the very essence of life has become a carrier for disease and for early death.”

On the recordOctober 19, 1965
The air that is the very essence of life has become a carrier for disease and for early death.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in the Hospital at the Signing of the Clean Air Act Amendments and Solid Waste Disposal Bill

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