
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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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.

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

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

We must find ways to allow more 're-use' of waste water at reasonable costs.

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

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

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

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

I have read your reports, Mr. Vice President, daily.

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

These are grave challenges, but I am confident that we shall meet them.

Today, we are certain that pollution adversely affects the quality of our lives.

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

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.

The strength of America can never be sapped by discussion.

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