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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

We will need to watch unfolding events closely, and to remain flexible in our tax and other policies so that we can change quickly if the need should arise.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

Pollution touches us all. We are at the same time polluters and sufferers from pollution.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

Federal financial assistance will be necessary if the Clean Rivers Demonstration Program is to succeed.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

Existing Federal authority to abate water pollution is unnecessarily time-consuming, complex in procedure, and limited in jurisdiction.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

Federal standards for the control of automobile exhausts will apply to the 1968 models.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The success of that partnership is demonstrated by the present state of our economy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The Vice President has visited eight or nine countries in areas of the world that are very important.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

As you know, they are led there by a brilliant and a resourceful commander, Gen. William C. Westmoreland.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

So let me assure you and my fellow Americans tonight that I will do everything in my power to defend both.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

In designing the system for the Nation's Capital, I want you to search worldwide for concepts and ideas that can be used to make this system attractive as well as useful.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights-or keep them.

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