Civics
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Lyndon B. Johnson often stopped at this spot and looked across the Potomac River before returning to the city and the pressures of the presidency. Having grown up along the banks of the Pedernales River in Texas, he was drawn to this place. The Potomac River he contemplated, like many of America’s rivers, was fouled with chemical runoff and raw sewage. At the signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965, he declared a refusal to be strangled by the wastes of civilization and called for people to become masters of their environment, hoping the law would serve as a blueprint for Americans to reclaim their natural heritage.
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Arlington, Virginia · United States
