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[[image - JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1961-63]]

Eighty-seventh Congress, 1961-62
Federal-Aid Highway Act - Social Security Amendments - Housing Act - Peace Corps - Public Welfare Amendments - Foreign Assistance Act - Omnibus Farm Program - Area Redevelopment Act, for depressed areas - Minimum wage increase and major extension of coverage - Mass transit improvement program - Community Health Facilities Act - Aid to dependent children - Small Business Investment Act and increased loan authorization - Establishment of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Ratification of Treaty for Prevention of Pollution of the High Seas by Oil - Juvenile Delinquency Act - Manpower Development and Retraining Act - Communications Satellite Act - Public Works Acceleration Act - Consumer drug protection - Trade Expansion Act - Educational Television Act - Migrant farm workers' health clinics - Work Hours Act, requiring time and a half after eight hours - Senior Citizens Housing Act - Berlin Resolution - Cuba Resolution -

Eighty-eighth Congress, 1963
Clean Air Act - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Medical Education Act - Mental Health and Mental Retardation Acts - Equal Pay Act, requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex - Mass Transit Act, funding research and development -

[[image - LYNDON B. JOHNSON, 1963-69]]

Eighty-eighth Congress, 1963-64
College and Vocational Education Aid - Twenty-fourth Amendment, eliminating poll tax - Tax cut and reform - Civil Rights Act - Mass Transportation Act - Omnibus Poverty Program Act, establishing Office of Economic Opportunity, Job Corps, VISTA, public assistance - Wilderness system - Conservation fund - Omnibus Housing Act - Educational aid to impacted areas - Food stamp plan -

Eighty-ninth Congress, 1965-66
Appalachia Regional Development Act - Elementary and Secondary Education Acts - Twenty-fifth Amendment on presidential succession and disability - Older Americans Act - Law Enforcement Assistance Act - Drug controls - Medicare - Voting Rights Act - Immigration Reform Act - Mental Health Research Facilities Act - Highway beauty - Clean air - Omnibus Housing Act - Creation of Department of Housing and Urban Development - Arts and humanities assistance - Water pollution control - Community health service - Creation of Department of Transportation - Truth in packaging - Teacher corps - Rent supplements - Model cities - Cold War GI Bill - Bail reform - Highway Safety Act - Urban Mass Transit Act - Mine Safety Act - Minimum wage increase - Parcel post reform - Freedom of Information Act -

Ninetieth Congress, 1967-68
Education Act - Air pollution control - Social security increases - Outer space treaty - Public television broadcasting - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - Gun controls - Truth in lending - Fair Housing Act - Safe streets - Health Manpower Act - Vocational education assistance - Scenic rivers - Scenic trails

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THE NIXON DOCTRINE ON SCHOOL, THE COURTS, SOCIETY & RACE: "THE COMPROMISE OF 1970"
On March 24, 19790, the Nixon Administration issued a carefully drafted comprehensive 8,000 word statement on the status of school desegregation in the United States. The president attempted to establish two philosophical and administrative priorities: one, to provide compensatory educational help to minority [[illegible]] children in de facto segregated classrooms, two, to relieve the pressure on local districts to conform  de jure federal desegregation guidelines. The president also summarized the findings of various court rulings which have sought to untangle the complexities stemming from support for neighborhood school patterns in the North and freedom of choice plans in the South. [[Illegible]] conclusion: de facto segregation does not violate the Constitution; de jure desegregation as practiced in the South does "in both Constitutional and human terms." The statement was attacked by most members of the black middle class establishment as a retreat on school segregation "desegregation yes, integration no" and a tacit endorsement of tax-exempt status for separate white "private" schools in the South. At the NAACP convention in July of [[illegible]] critics of Nixon ticked off other grievances. Nixon's retreat on the use of federal register to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, emasculation of the cease-and-desist powers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), his willingness to sign defense contracts with textile companies not complying with desegregation guidelines, and his Supreme Court nominations. Although this statement does not explicitly contend with all these accusations, it does summarize Nixon's views on the principle for human advancement and the policies which he is prepared to back in order to guarantee black progress within the framework of American society. The document is printed in its [[illegible]] entirety as a statement of the President's intention to press for "a free and open society in hiring, housing practices, and high education."

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