Lyndon Johnson: “In your hands is the decision to choose the man that you will entrust with this responsibility for your survival.”

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

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…

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

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.