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Houston Space Center Is Named for Johnson

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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Feb. 19 (UPI) — President Nixon signed into law today a bill designating the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

The President issued statement saying:

“By his vision and his work and his support, Lyndon Johnson drew America up closer to the stars, and before he died he saw us reach the moon — the first great plateau along the way.”

The President noted that Mr. Johnson, who died last month, as a Senator drafted, introduced and helped enact legislation that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mr. Nixon recalled that the former President called it “the proudest legislative achievement in his years in the Congress.”