Lyndon Johnson: “The American people are very proud of their 1964 Olympic team.”

We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.

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…

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.

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.