Lyndon Johnson: “A growing nation cannot afford to waste those resources, human and natural, which are now too often neglected and unused…”

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.

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…

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

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.