Lyndon Johnson: “It is a very pleasant and proud privilege of mine to present to you, Dr. Alvarez, the National Medal of Science.”

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

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

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.

Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.