Lyndon Johnson: “Today, social security and Medicare stand as two of the most historic programs ever enacted by any Congress.”

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

Thank you all for your welcome and for the wonderful work that you carry on.

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.

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.