Lyndon Johnson: “I will shortly send to the Congress a special message conveying my recommendations for the attack on poverty.”

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…

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

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.