Lyndon Johnson: “This is not a day for politics.”

Thank you all for your welcome and for the wonderful work that you carry on.

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

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.