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On the recordAugust 19, 1966
I saw smog hanging over our cities, and our rivers where they have been abandoned by man and abandoned by fish alike.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont

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