Lyndon Johnson - 1963-1969
-Launches the War on Poverty in 1964
-The Civil Rights Act is passed in 1964
-The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allows Johnson to render aid to any east Asian nation threatened by communism
-Medicare is enacted during his first elected term, in 1965
-The Voting Rights Act and Immigration Reform Acts are passed that same year
-1966 sees the creation of the National Organization for Women
-Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy are assassinated in 1968