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| cut corporate and individual taxes to stimulate growth |
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| created job corps; VISTA, preject head start, and other programs to fight "war on poverty" |
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| established MEDICARE and MEDICAID programs |
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| appalachian regional development act |
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| targeted aid for highwaysm helth centers, and resource development in that ecnomically depressed area |
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| provided money for low income housing |
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| department of housing and urban development |
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| was formed to administer federal housing programs |
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| demonstration cities and metropolitan area redevelopment act |
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| funded slum rebuilding, mass transit, and other improvements for selected "model cities" |
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| elementary and secondary education act |
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| directed money to schools for textbooks, library materials and special education |
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| funded scholarships and low-income loans for college students |
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| national foundation on the arts ans de humanities |
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| was created to financially assist painters, musicians, actors, and others in arts |
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| corporation for public broadcasting |
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| was formed to fund educational tv and radio broadcasting |
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| outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, housing and jobs; increased federal power to prosecute civil rights abuses |
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| abolished the pol tax in federal elections |
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| ended the practice of requiring voters to pass literacy tests and permitted the federal gov mnt to monitor voter registration |
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| ended national origins quotas established in 1924 |
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| wilderness preservation act |
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| set aside over 9 million acres for national forest lands. |
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| required startes to clean up their rivers |
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| directed the federal gov.t to stablish emission standards for new motorvehicles |
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| set federal air pollution guidelines and extended federal enforcement power |
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| set standards for labeling consumer products |
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| national traffic and motorvehicle safety act |
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| set federal safety standards for the auto and the tire industries |
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| required states to set up highway safety programs |
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| department of transportation |
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| was created to deal with national air, rail and highway transportation |
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| provides hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for almost every american over 65 |
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| extended health ensurance to welfare recipients |
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| kennedys new campaign to transform the hroad vision of progress |
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| offered economic and technical assistance to help latin american countries improve their liveing standards |
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| wrote book called "the other america" |
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| concluded that kennedy had been shot by oswald |
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| approved 1 $ billion for youth programs, antipoverty measures, small business loans, and job training |
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| johnson's gran vision for america |
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