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Lyndon Johnson: “This sort of carelessness and selfishness simply ought to be stopped; and more, it just must be reversed.”

On the recordOctober 1, 1965
This sort of carelessness and selfishness simply ought to be stopped; and more, it just must be reversed.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965

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