Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Review and surveillance of all such activities shall be maintained to assure that pollution control standards are met on a continuing basis;

Executive Order 11258—Prevention, Control, and Abatement of Water Pollution by Federal Activities

11/16/1965

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Our forces, American forces, were ordered in immediately to protect American lives.

In this situation hesitation and vacillation could mean death for many of our people, as well as many of the citizens of other lands.

You are needed to help shape that future.

I have just come from a meeting with the leaders of both parties in the Congress which was held in the Cabinet Room in the White House.