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

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…

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.

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

A President belongs to a party and the party has to help him get elected.

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

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby set aside Wednesday, October 20, 1965, as National Day of Prayer, 1965.

I urge that we pray for God-given vision and determination to make the sacrifices demanded by our responsibilities to our fellow men in our own Nation and in other lands of this world.

So the bill that we are signing into law today is, we think, going to help bring these new water systems into being.

I am so happy that some of the wives of the Members of the House could be here.

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

We cannot, we will not, we just must not delay it any longer.

No international gathering ever met anywhere for a more important purpose.

Tonight, the President of the United States is going on record as naming this session of Congress the greatest in American history.

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

Even as they deliberated the conception of this Nation, our forefathers, mindful of the frailties of mortal men, turned for guidance to Almighty God.

So let us then extend that partnership.