There are pressing and obvious needs in the fight against lawlessness: better trained, better paid, and more effective police forces; fairer and more efficient systems of criminal justice; and--tragically--better means of responding when public order breaks down under the impact of riots.
Remarks Opening the Midyear Conference of Governors of the States and Territories.
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Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, under the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, supra, do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the lands owned or controlled by the…
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.
Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.
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