Lyndon Johnson: “With this balanced program we can: Meet our international responsibilities with firmness.”

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.

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.

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

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