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He grew up to see how politics was at once powerful and petty, like when he took a job editing government documentaries of Lyndon Johnson and was ordered to never show the president’s bald spot.

Head Start was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” and has served more than 40 million children over the past six decades.

Reagan tried to undo most of the Great Society programs that were created by Lyndon Johnson.

Eighty-nine-year-old Caro has devoted most of his writing life to just two projects: “The Power Broker,” his magisterial 1974 biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, and an epic multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration built on the achievements of the Roosevelt era by enacting Medicare and Medicaid.