President Johnson signed into law the Higher Education Act. which provided needbased financial aid to students in the form of scholarships. workstudy grants. and loans. and thus for the first time made higher education more accessible to populations of persons who were previously unable to attend college because of economic circumstances. On October 3. 1965. President Johnson signed into law the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. which transformed the nations immigration system by abolishing the racially based quota system that had defined American immigration policy for the previous four decades and replaced it with a policy whose central purpose was family reunification. with a preference for immigrants with specific skillsets. According to Robert A. Caro. the preeminent biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson. with the single exception of Abraham Lincoln.
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