Speech #890158005

I was privileged to help guide much of this legislation through the Congress. Among the major achievements of the session in which I was particularly active were: First. passage of health care program for the elderly. including my provision for supplementary. private medical insurance coverage. second. Federal aid to primary and secondary education. which I had worked for for many years. third. establishment of a National Foundation on Arts and Humanities which has been one of my major concerns for 16 years. fourth. the Voting Rights Act of 1965. fifth. elimination of the discriminatory national origins quota system for Immigration. sixth. establishment of a Department of Housing and Urban Development. and seventh. enactment of the Higher Education Act. Other important measures were the enactment of a constitutional amendment to improve procedures for presidential succession. and to provide orderly transition in case of presidential disability. extension of the antipoverty program. Federal assistance to States In eliminating water pollution. and a program to add economically hard pressed countiesincluding 13 in New Yorkin the Appalachian region.