Lyndon Johnson: “I would like to renew that request--out of respect for him--and out of my own concern with this problem.”

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, under the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, supra, do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the lands owned or controlled by the…

Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.

Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.

Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.