Lyndon Johnson: “No country on earth has ever had more freedom, greater wealth, or a higher standard of living for so many people.”

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.

I believe deeply in your cause and I believe in you.

In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the following described land reserved by the Act of September 1, 1959, be designated as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Park area of…