Lyndon Johnson: “What is expensive is sickness, bigotry, ignorance, discrimination, and crime.”

We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.

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

Thank you all for your welcome and for the wonderful work that you carry on.

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.