Lyndon Johnson actually said...

As this Nation's economy continues to expand, we will continue to need ships—fast, modern descendants of the famous 'Clippers'—to carry our products to the far corners of the earth and return with the raw materials essential to our national prosperity.

Context

Proclamation 3708—National Maritime Day, 1966

03/21/1966

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