Lyndon Johnson: “So let all the world know that when this Nation has stood 2,000 years we shall not have forgotten the lands where our…”

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…

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.

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.