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On the recordAugust 10, 1965
I may or may not be the most optimistic person in America about the progress we can make on desalting the seas, but I am, and I intend to remain, the most determined man that we shall make the great breakthroughs before the calendar turns to 1970.
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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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