Lyndon Johnson: “It will also result in long-range savings to the Federal Government.”

In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.

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

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.