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On the recordOctober 6, 1965
If science can unlock the door to an unlimited supply of pure and drinkable water, I think it will be an event in human history as significant as the harnessing of the atom.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Delegates to the First International Symposium on Water Desalination.

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