Lyndon Baines Johnson,
Proclamation 3561
(1963)
“ To the People of the United States:John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, has been taken from us by an act which outrages decent men everywhere.He upheld the faith of our fathers, which is freedom for all men. He broadened the frontiers of that faith, and backed it with the energy and the courage which are the mark of the Nation he led.A man of wisdom, strength, and peace, he moulded and moved the power of our Nation in the service of a world of growing liberty and order. All who love freedom will mourn his death. ”
