Lyndon Johnson: “Men are dreaming and planning of projects that will some day enable us to mitigate the awesome and terrible forces of…”

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.

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

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

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…