I urge every American who uses our waterways to reexamine his boating habits during this Week and decide what he can do, individually and together with his countrymen, to reduce accidents and prevent the needless waste of lives on the water.
Lyndon Johnson: “I urge every American who uses our waterways to reexamine his boating habits during this Week and decide what he can do…”
On the recordJanuary 18, 1966
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Proclamation 3698—National Safe Boating Week, 1966
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