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Today, as we meet here in this historic room where
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So I hope this meeting this morning will provide a platform for us to get that kind of transportation. We must do it. We must start getting it now. In the past 15 years, travel between our cities has more than doubled. By 1985--only 20 years away--we will have 75 million more
Americans in this
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give us better and faster and more economical transportation on the ground. And a lot of us need it more on the ground than we need it orbiting the earth.
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infrastructure building initiatives. Johnson's remarks upon signing the bill included the following:
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