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VISTA
Federal program that sends volunteers to help people in poor communities -
Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
Central to Johnson's Great Society campaign and its War on Poverty. -
Elementary and Secondary Education, 1965
Provided about $1.4 billion in federal grants to states for purchasing textbooks and library materials, supplementary communitywide educational centers, new research and training centers, and programs to improve state education departments. -
Medicaid, 1965
Medicaid was created on July 30, 1965, through Title XIX of the Social Security Act. -
Medicare, 1965
The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation. At the bill-signing ceremony, Johnson enrolled former President Harry S. Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary and presented him with the first Medicare card, and Truman's wife Bess, the second -
The National Foundation of the arts and humanities
Established a National Endowment for the Arts and a National Endowment for the Humanities and authorized each to make grants for a wide range of activities. -
water quality act, 1965
Required states to issue water quality standards for interstate waters, and authorized the newly-created Federal Water Pollution Control Administration to set standards where states failed to do so -
Immigration Act of 1965
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill that has dramatically changed the method by which immigrants are admitted to America -
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety
Allowed new standards to be set by the federal government. Regulation of these standards is also managed by the federal government.
