Lyndon Johnson: “The bill I am signing here in the Cabinet Room this morning--H.R. 14026--I hope will help to correct these conditions.”

Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.

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.

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.

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