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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.'

You have done more.

We believe that we are going to take the necessary precautions to preserve the scenery of our land for the enjoyment of our children.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of November 19 through November 25, 1965, as National Farm-City Week.