Lyndon Johnson: “I am naming three men as Assistant Attorneys General in the Department of Justice today.”

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.

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

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

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