Lyndon Baines Johnson20 August 1964
Signs the Economic Opportunity Act, creating the Office of Economic Opportunity and major War on Poverty programmes.
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Signs the Economic Opportunity Act, creating the Office of Economic Opportunity and major War on Poverty programmes.
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