12/08/1965
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"The maintenance of our existing Wilderness System is a priority program of the Federal government."
"Every two minutes cancer strikes a man or a woman or a child in this country."
"The Wilderness Act is one in the long list of creative conservation measures that Congress has passed and I have signed into law."
"Together they testify to a progressive, compassionate and resolute people."