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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

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

The success of the Vice President's visit was contributed to a great deal by the presence of a man who is always there when the decisions are being made and wherever the problems exist.

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

The last 20 years have demonstrated that the Employment Act was neither dangerous nor visionary.

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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

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 spiraling cost of land acquisitions by the Federal Government, particularly for water resource and recreational purposes, is a matter of increasing concern.

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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

The years of experience that you have devoted to public life in Minnesota, and in the United States Senate in a position of leadership and as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, have certainly served you in good stead in your…

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

The task of managing economic policy so as to achieve high employment without overheating will always be difficult.

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

We will build freedom while we fight, and we will seek peace every day by every honorable means.

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

We seek to create that climate, at home and abroad, where unlettered men can learn, where deprived children can grow, where hopeless millions can be inspired to change the terms of their existence for the better.

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