Lyndon Johnson: “They know that peace is not merely the absence of shooting.”

We have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.

With personal regards.

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.

They--and you--are a credit to your generation.