Lyndon Johnson: “We have new resources of abundant energy that can provide the power that this will require.”

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 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…

I believe deeply in your cause and I believe in you.

This program, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization, constitutes one of the largest and most complex scientific and technological undertakings ever attempted as an international effort.