Lyndon Johnson: “I am renewing my recommendation for the enactment of legislation to establish a National Water Commission.”

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.

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

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.

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…