Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The air that is the very essence of life has become a carrier for disease and for early death.

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

10/19/1965

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

You are men and women who have saved your Nation certain costs.

We want to end the fighting.

In government, as elsewhere, it is much easier to spend money than it is to save it.

Our greatest resource, really, in this conflict-our greatest support for the men who are fighting out there--is your understanding.