Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Saline Water Conversion Act

08/10/1965

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