Lyndon Johnson: “Our Government has long been one avenue by which members of minorities have entered into full participation of our…”

We have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.

Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.

They--and you--are a credit to your generation.

I call upon them to cooperate fully with the Secretaries of Commerce and State in this important work.