Remarks Upon Signing the Fire Research and Safety Act of 1968
02/29/1968
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Now it becomes the people's direct responsibility.
We want to make our Capital City a showcase for the entire Nation.
The time is now. The responsibility is ours.
Nowhere else--in no other society on this earth--are so many so devoted to leaving this earth better than they found it.