Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This act will require all 1968 model automobiles--including the foreign models that are sold here--to meet Federal control standards for exhaust.

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

Contaminated air began in this country as a big-city problem.

Don't we really risk our own damnation every day by destroying the air that gives us life?

We have done it with our science, our industry, and our progress.

I wish I could, but I cannot tell you this morning that we are going to be able to meet successfully all of these challenges.