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On the recordAugust 10, 1965
It is my own studied and considered judgment, however, that this bill that you are witnessing being signed this morning will be the most historic of all of them: not for what it provides but rather for what it promises, not for what it accomplishes but rather for what it symbolizes.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Saline Water Conversion Act

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