On the recordOctober 1, 1965
No one has a right to use America's rivers and America's waterways that belong to all the people as a sewer.
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presidency.ucsb.eduLyndon Johnson: “No one has a right to use America's rivers and America's waterways that belong to all the people as a sewer.”
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Remarks at the Signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965
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