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May 22, 1964 - LBJ Remarks at The University of Michigan ("Great Society Speech").
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Running Time = 5:40
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January 12, 1965 - LBJ Remarks on "The Education Message
to Congress".
AUDIO: WHCA 243
Running Time = 5:03
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April 11, 1965 - LBJ signed the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), the first general aid-to-education program
ever adopted by Congress, in Stonewall, Texas.
AUDIO: WHCA 285
Running Time = 6:48
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Douglass Cater (Special Assistant to the President) Oral History Interview I,
has discussion of ESEA and the issues of religion,
race, and the government formula for the distribution of funds.
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November 8, 1965 - Higher Education Act (PL 89-329) signed at Southwest Texas State College, San Marcos,
Texas. For the first time in U.S. history Congress approved federal
scholarships for undergraduates students. It included insurance on
student loans that had been proposed by LBJ while he was a Congressman
and subsequently requested by President Kennedy in 1963.
AUDIO: WHCA 370
Running Time = 23:46
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