Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Finally, I am happy to announce today that one of the Nation's leading traffic safety experts has responded to my call for help.

Safety is no luxury item, it is no optional extra; it must be a normal cost of doing business.

We are going to ask every State to participate in safety programs and to conform to uniform driver and pedestrian safety performance standar...

Several million Americans ought to be, and I think will be, very grateful to this 89th Congress for this legislation.