Lyndon Johnson: “These brave men whom we have asked to come here to the East Room today and whom we honor now, know that better than we…”

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

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

I believe deeply in your cause and I believe in you.

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.