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Lyndon Johnson: “I urge that such programs place special emphasis on the increasing importance of protecting our Nation's soil, water…”

On the recordJuly 20, 1964
I urge that such programs place special emphasis on the increasing importance of protecting our Nation's soil, water, and timber so that our estimated 340 million citizens of the year 2000 may enjoy abundance then as we do now.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3600—National Farm-City Week: 1964

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