Lyndon Johnson actually said...

It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation.

The dedication of America to our traditions as an asylum for the oppressed is going to be upheld.

With the signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965 this morning, I pledge you that we are going to reopen the Potomac for swimming by 1975.

This sort of carelessness and selfishness simply ought to be stopped; and more, it just must be reversed.