Lyndon Johnson: “Lady Bird and I send you, Bill and Diana, Henry and Jessica, our love and our prayers in your time of grief.”

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.

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.

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