Lyndon Johnson: “In the past 12 months, commercial and industrial construction was 27% higher than during the previous year.”

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.

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…

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.

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