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• Help people to turn their lives around

• Make a difference in people’s lives

• VISTA = Volunteers in Service to America

• When in Congress….

• Passed Civil Rights Act of 1957

• A voting rights measure was the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction

• Cut deficit by reducing taxes

• Civil Rights Act of 1964–Prohibited

discrimination on race, religion, natural origin, sex

• Economic Opportunity Act (1964)– Job corps youth training

program– VISTA– Project Head Start –

education program for underprivileged preschoolers

– Encourage people to join in public works programs

• Major Reason Johnson wins is because of Goldwater’s call for the use of nuclear weapons against Cuba and Vietnam

• End poverty and racial injustice

• Equal opportunity

• Richer quality of life for all

• EDUCATION:–Elementary and

Secondary Education Act of 1965

–1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools

• HEALTHCARE:

– Medicare – hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost all Americans over 65

– Medicaid – health insurance for welfare recipients

• HOUSING:– Established

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

– Robert Weaver – first African-American Cabinet member

• IMMIGRATION:

–Immigration Act of 1965

–Opened door for many non-European immigrants