Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This Commission will:--Provide a creative and helping hand to State, local, and private groups in their commemorations.

I see an America where nearby lakes offer weekend camping and fishing and boating for all of our people.

Nothing in our proud heritage surpasses the significance of that great struggle for freedom nearly two hundred years ago.

This will be another important link in the great network of national parks that some of us have worked so long to establish.