LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS

• “Now that I’ve got the power, I aim to use it.“

  –President Lyndon Baines Johnson

  Landmark Laws of the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

  With these acts President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Congress wrote a record of hope and opportunity for America:

  1963 College Facilities Clean Air Vocational Education Indian Vocational Training Manpower Training   1964 Inter-American     Development Bank Kennedy Cultural Center Tax Reduction Presidential Transition Federal Airport Aid Farm Program Chamizal Convention Pesticide Controls International Development Association Civil Rights Act of 1964 Campobello International Park Urban Mass Transit Water Resources Research Federal Highway Civil Service Pay Raise War on Poverty Criminal Justice Truth-in-Securities Medicine Bow National Forest Ozark Scenic Riverway Administrative Conference Fort Bowie Historic Site Food Stamp  Housing Act Interest Equalization Wilderness Areas Nurse Training Revenues for Recreation Fire Island National Seashore Library Services Federal Employee Health Benefits   1965 Medicare Aid to Education Higher Education Four Year Farm Program Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing Act Social Security Increase Deaf-Blind Center College Work Study Summer Youth Programs Food Stamps Rail Strike Settlement Selective Service Urban Fellowships Consular Treaty Safety At Sea Treaty Narcotics Treaty Anti-Racketeering Product Safety Commission Small Business Aid Inter-American Bank   1968 Fair Housing Indian Bill of Rights Safe Streets Wholesome Poultry Food for Peace Commodity Exchange Rules U.S. Grain Standards School Breakfasts Bank Protection Defense Production Corporate Takeovers Export Program Gold Cover Removal Truth-in-Lending Aircraft Noise Abatement Auto Insurance Study New Narcotics Bureau Gas Pipeline Safety Fire Safety Sea Grant Colleges D.C. School Board Tax Surcharge Better Housing International Monetary Reform International Grains Treaty Oil Revenues for Recreation Virgin Islands Elections San Rafael Wilderness San Gabriel Wilderness Fair Federal Juries Candidate Protection Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Guaranteed Student Loans D.C. Visitors Center FHA-VA Interest Rate Program Health Manpower Eisenhower College Gun Controls

  Voting Rights Fair Immigration Law Older AmericansHeart, Cancer, Stroke Program Law Enforcement Assistance National Crime Commission Drug Controls Mental Health Facilities Health Professions Medical Libraries Vocational Rehabilitation Anti-Poverty Program Arts and Humanities Foundation Aid to Appalachia Highway Beauty Clean Air Water Pollution Control High Speed Transit Manpower Training Presidential Disability Child Health Regional Development Aid to Small Businesses Weather-Predicting Services Military Pay Increase GI Life Insurance Community Health Services Water Resources Council Water Desalting Assateague National Seashore Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area Juvenile Delinquency Control Arms Control Strengthening U.N. Charter International Coffee Agreement Retirement for Public Servants 1966 Food for India Child Nutrition Department of Transportation Truth in Packaging Model Cities Rent Supplements Teachers Corps Asian Development Bank Clean Rivers Aid-to-Handicapped Children Redwoods Park Flaming Gorge Recreation Area Biscayne Park Heart, Cancer, and Stroke Programs Hazardous Radiation Protection Colorado River Reclamation Scenic Rivers Scenic Trails National Water Commission Federal Magistrates Vocational Education Veterans Pension Increases North Cascades Park International Coffee Agreement Intergovernmental Manpower Dangerous Drugs Control Military Justice Code

  Food for Freedom Child Safety Narcotics Rehabilitation Traffic Safety Highway Safety Mine Safety International Education Bail Reform Tire Safety New GI Bill Minimum Wage Increase Urban Mass Transit Civil Procedure Reform Federal Highway Aid Military Medicare Public Health Reorganization Cape Lookout Seashore Water Research Guadalupe National Park Revolutionary War Bicentennial Fish-Wildlife Preservation Water for Peace Anti-Inflation Program Scientific Knowledge Exchange Cultural Materials Exchange Foreign Investors Tax Parcel Post Reform Civil Service Pay Raise Stockpile Sales Participation Certificates Protection for Savings Flexible Interest Rates Freedom of Information 1967 Education Professions Education Act Air Pollution Control Partnership for Health Social Security Increases Age Discrimination Wholesome Meat Flammable Fabrics Urban Research Public Broadcasting Outer Space Treaty Modern D.C. Government Vietnam Veterans Benefits Federal Judicial Center Civilian-Postal Workers Pay