Lyndon Johnson: “It is never easy to part with a member of our official family or adequately to convey how much we will miss him.”

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 have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.

In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.

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…