Lyndon Johnson: “It can be said of him, as Thomas Jefferson said of George Washington: 'Never did nature and fortune combine more…”

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

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

This program, sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization, constitutes one of the largest and most complex scientific and technological undertakings ever attempted as an international effort.

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.