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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Amendments of 1965 as former President Harry Truman and his wife Bess look on. July 30, 1965 SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1965 Passage of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1965 establishedMedicare, a health insurance programfor the elderly, andMedicaid, a health insurance program for the poor. Both programs were funded by a tax on the earnings of employees,matched by contribuons by employers. In the first three years of the program, nearly 20million beneficiaries enrolled. This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in Independence,Missouri, at the presidenal library of former President Harry Truman, an early advocate of a naonal health care insurance program. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Vong Rights Act of 1965 on August 6, 1965 in the President's Roomin the Capitol as congressional supporters and Civil Rights leaders, including Marn Luther King, Jr., look on. August 5, 1965 THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 The Vong Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory vong pracces, including literacy tests as a prerequisite used to preventmany African Americans fromvong. By the end of 1965, a quarter of amillion new voters had been registered. The Vong Rights Act of 1965 was readopted and strengthened in 1970, 1975, and 1982. 8 THE CAPITOL DOME SUMMER 2012 NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY PHOTO BY YOICHI OKAMOTO