Lyndon Johnson: “Lord Palmerston once said that Britain has no permanent friends--she has only permanent interests.”

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.

I call upon them to cooperate fully with the Secretaries of Commerce and State in this important work.

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.

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