Lyndon Johnson

In the decade ahead we must accomplish more--much more--than in the decade past.

Here on earth, God's work must truly be our own.

I have not been willing to accept that fact, and as long as I hold this Office of the Presidency I am going to try not to accept that fact.

I want to say to every Member of the 89th Congress--Democrat or Republican--who wrote and supported this record: Your people will revere you and reward you, and the Nation will honor you long after you are gone.

I wish that all America could see it, and perhaps when we have another Congress we will salute it again.

And today I want to announce the beginning of a Water for Peace program.

I call upon all our citizens to join individually in this effort, that blind persons in our society may continue to enjoy a high degree of independence.

Well, now we are going to balance the ledger.

We have reached a point... where very serious consideration must now be given to the pressure of individual, industrial, agricultural needs upon the water resources of this Nation.

Therefore, today I call upon all the nations of the world to join us in the creation of an international fund to bring the fruits of science and technology to all the corners of a parched and thirsty world.

We hope that this study will be a model for future cooperation among neighbors in all the regions of the world that are suffering from water shortage.

Few nations have been so favored by Almighty God, and it is altogether fitting that a day be set aside for this purpose.

Above all, let us light the world of our blind citizens with opportunity.

The earth's water belongs to all mankind.

If science can unlock the door to an unlimited supply of pure and drinkable water, I think it will be an event in human history as significant as the harnessing of the atom.

I do hereby proclaim October 15, 1965, as White Cane Safety Day.

But once he is elected, my conception of the institution is that--he is President of all the people and he ought to try to be the servant of all the people.

Mark Twain once described a place as, 'This poor little one-horse town.'

THANK YOU so very much.

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

What the bill promises, then, is clear water, constant water for all of our rural America.

I urge civic and service organizations, schools, public bodies, and the media of public information in every community to join in observing White Cane Safety Day with activities which will promote greater awareness of the meaning of the…

Many years ago Woodrow Wilson said of a Congress: 'A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.'

And this is a classical example of what a member of a minority party can do.

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