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Lyndon Johnson: “From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon…”

On the recordMarch 7, 1968
From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress on Conservation: 'To Renew a Nation.'

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