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Lyndon Johnson: “We can have the industrial might of Lake Erie and we can have a Lake Erie where people can swim and where they can fish…”

On the recordAugust 18, 1966
We can have the industrial might of Lake Erie and we can have a Lake Erie where people can swim and where they can fish, and where they can sail.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Buffalo on Beginning a 3-Day Trip in New York and New England.

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