President Lyndon B. Johnson signing Medicare into law in July 1965, with Harry Truman. Behind them, from left: Lady Bird Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and Bess Truman.

President Lyndon Johnson’s Great society programs would be the most ambitious in social programs passed, even surpassing the New Deal 30 years prior. The 89th congress would spear-head this effort with some scholars marking it as the most productive legislative session in American history.

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