Lyndon Johnson: “The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is not simply a Washington building.”

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.

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

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, under the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, supra, do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the lands owned or controlled by the…

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