Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I urge civic and service organizations, schools, public bodies, and the media of public information in every community to join in observing ...

From your committees and both your Houses has come the greatest outpouring of creative legislation in the history of this Nation.

And I believe that we just must give a spur and an incentive and a desire for people to embrace rural life in America.

So, today, we have come here to proclaim October 15th as 'White Cane Day.'