We are prepared to provide an emergency pump pipeline system from the Passaic Lake wells.

There is universal agreement that we should proceed at once.

We shall renew neither ourselves, nor society, nor a troubled world, unless we share a vision of something worth saving.

The faith and the will of millions do not take fire from the brands that are muffled in reluctance and fear.

We would feed the hungry and we would shelter the homeless, and we would do all of this as free men making liberty the companion of progress.

And if we have not really reached the farthest limit of expectation, we have done much more, indeed, than many ever believed we could do.

Our continent is in ferment.

If we follow these commands in all our lands, then progress will fulfill our dreams.

It was nothing less than to transform the life of an entire continent.

I have called for a major effort to beautify our highways and roadsides, and to construct scenic and recreational roads.

We are anxious and our hearts are saddened this Sunday at the disaster which has struck your country but with God's help and fraternal assistance we are confident that the Chilean people will overcome these difficulties.

I urge all Americans to give recognition to the value of highway transportation to their own activities and to our national welfare.

I urge the Governors of the States and mayors of cities to issue similar proclamations.

An initial shipment of blankets, clothes and medicines will be arriving in Chile on Tuesday to be followed by other supplies in the coming days.

My deep sympathy and that of the people of the United States goes out to you and the Chilean people as you move to relieve human suffering following in the wake of the second natural catastrophe which has struck your country this year.

I also invite the people of the United States to honor the memory of Leif Erikson on that day by holding appropriate exercises and ceremonies in schools and churches, or other suitable places

That new legislation is but a beginning and there is still much to be done.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson,President of the United States of America, and presiding officer of the Smithsonian Institution, hereby proclaim the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of the birth of James Smithson; and I…