We have new resources of abundant energy that can provide the power that this will require.

Ours is really an open land, an open society with no walls around it, nothing to hide within it, and we want the world and we want Americans themselves to see the U.S.A.

Three of our cities, ships at sea, the oil fields of other lands already depend upon desalting plants.

This is a time for action.

What was impossible and inconceivable yesterday is very near to reality today.

I am very delighted to see so many Members of the House and many of my friends in the Senate come here this morning.

Your President feels that we should encourage our own citizens and the citizens of other nations to get better acquainted with what we have here in America.

We think America is a beautiful land.

The seas are not our only recourse and that we aim to make it feasible to mine, desalt, and put to productive use the brackish groundwater which underlies more than 2 million square miles of the United States.

I want this Nation to lead the effort to close this gap--not in the next 50 years but in the next 5 years.

We must act together to solve the immediate crisis that is facing us.

I thank you and I appreciate what you have done, and what you are willing to do.

As rapidly as we develop economic desalting plants, we be prepared to share our technology with other countries where desalting offers the best answer to their local water problems.

There is always a certain amount of cynicism among members of the executive branch and, I guess, sometimes among even members of the press about the productiveness of the Congress.

We want Americans to travel.

America is truly, I think, 'America the Beautiful.'

I need all the help I can get in that field.

This measure votes 'no' on 'America the Ugly'--and it votes 'yes' on preserving, for our posterity, 'America the Beautiful.'