Lyndon Johnson: “We have struck down legal barriers to equality.”

Americans do not bow. They salute, but they do not bow.

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.

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

The mood at the White House this evening is one of cautious optimism.