Lyndon Johnson: “They will enable us to support the important new efforts recommended by the National Council on Marine Resources and…”

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

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

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.