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Agnosticsherbet

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6. You need to add President Johnson...
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:18 AM
Jun 2016

American liberalism was at high tide under President Johnson.

The Wilderness Protection Act saved 9.1 million acres of forestland from industrial development.
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act provided major funding for American public schools.
The Voting Rights Act banned literacy tests and other discriminatory methods of denying suffrage to African Americans.
Medicare was created to offset the costs of health care for the nation's elderly.
The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities used public money to fund artists and galleries.
The Immigration Act ended discriminatory quotas based on ethnic origin.
An Omnibus Housing Act provided funds to construct low-income housing.
Congress tightened pollution controls with stronger Air and Water Quality Acts.
Standards were raised for safety in consumer products.


The Civil Rights Act of 1964, but it was Johnson who got the thing passed against the protest of Southern Democrats and signed it into law.
President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid programs into law, July 30, 1965.

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