This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

I have directed the Departments of State and Justice and Health, Education, and Welfare to immediately make all the necessary arrangements to permit those in Cuba who seek freedom to make an orderly entry into the United States of America.

Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of their birth for a more hopeful home in America.

The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied.

But we must act, and act swiftly.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend through the year 1966 the period during which all persons are specially invited to see the United States, visit our historic shrines, our…

Today, we begin to be masters of our environment.

I am pleased with this opportunity for the United States to participate with Japan in the joint solution of health problems which will have worldwide benefits.

With the signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965 this morning, I pledge you that we are going to reopen the Potomac for swimming by 1975.

No one has a right to use America's rivers and America's waterways that belong to all the people as a sewer.

This sort of carelessness and selfishness simply ought to be stopped; and more, it just must be reversed.

The ultimate victory of reclaiming this portion of our national heritage really rests in the hands of all the people of America, not just the Government here in Washington.

Today, we proclaim our refusal to be strangled by the wastes of civilization.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend through the year 1966 the period during which all persons are specially invited to see the United States, visit our historic shrines, our natural wonders…

I believe that with your help and your continued cooperation, water pollution is doomed in this century.

There is no excuse for a river flowing red with blood from slaughterhouses.

There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

I want to be very clear about this, because we must, in our own interest and in the interest of those who rely on the dollar as a reserve currency, maintain our payments in equilibrium.