Lyndon Johnson: “We who knew him knew that he was a gallant fighter, a man who dedicated his life both as a newsman and as a public…”

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

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

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.

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…