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Lyndon Johnson.
lyndon Johnson It was president Johnson.
The Democratic Party under President Franklin D Roosevelt (for Social Security, 1935), and the same party under Lyndon Johnson for Medicare (1965).
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
basic medical services for the poor and disabled
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Lyndon Johnson is noted for his war on poverty . Some say that poverty won.
Johnson hoped to be remembered for his social programs, but he got bogged down in the Viet Nam War.
Lyndon Johnson started Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that the elderly and the poor would have medical care.
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Richard Nixon. Johnson stunned the country by announcing that he would not run for a second term in 1968. The Democratic party nominated Vice President Hubert Humphrey as its candidate but he was defeated due to a number of factors, two of the most serious being social unrest and Johnson's association with the Viet Nam war.