A President just must not ignore the unanimous vote of both Houses of the Congress, the two Texas chairmen, Yarborough and Teague, and some 5 million men who will be the beneficiaries who have worn the uniform.
Remarks Upon Signing the 'Cold War GI Bill' (Veterans' Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966)
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In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
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.
Thank you all for your welcome and for the wonderful work that you carry on.
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…
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