Lyndon Johnson: “We will be glad to meet anyone more than halfway, insofar as talking instead of fighting is concerned.”

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.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the following described land reserved by the Act of September 1, 1959, be designated as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Park area of…

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.