Lyndon Johnson: “We are going ahead in our country to bring an end to poverty and to racial injustice.”

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.

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

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.