Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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

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

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

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 15, 1965, as White Cane Safety Day.