Lyndon Johnson: “I saw smog hanging over our cities, and our rivers where they have been abandoned by man and abandoned by fish alike.”

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

We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.

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.

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.