For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked ... was essential to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and even the Public ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not ... Along with Medicare, the Johnson Administration established the Medicaid ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union ... the elderly and the victims of prejudice. They include Medicare and the major civil rights measures, staples of today ...