Lyndon Johnson: “I do hereby invite the several States of the Union and foreign countries to take part in the California World's Fair.”

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.

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.

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

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.