Lyndon Johnson: “Mankind must be helped to escape the darkness of poverty, ignorance, and disease.”

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, 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…

We're proud of the record that you're making in your country.

I hope to some day be able to come there and see you in your own land, in your own atmosphere.