Lyndon Johnson: “You know, as our Nation is challenged--and it is on many fronts, many times each year--we have to call upon all of our…”

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.

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, 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…

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