Saturday 13 October 2012

JFKcare



On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, seated left, signed the Medicare Bill at the Harry S. Truman Library as, from left, Lady Bird Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, former President Harry Truman, and former First Lady Bess Truman watched. This bill-covering many health care expenses for senior citizens-was a part of LBJ's ambitious domestic agenda known as The Great Society.






Johnson credited Truman with “planting the seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care for the sick and serenity for the fearful.”

Magnanimous as ever, Lyndon...

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