Lyndon Johnson: “Only an America that cares for its sick, offers a helping hand to its poor, and compassion to its old—only this kind of…”

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.

Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.

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.