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What Is the Presidential Fitness Test? What to Know About the Physical Assessment Returning to Schools
On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reviving the Presidential Fitness Test. Here's what to know ...
Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump’s big bill is chiseling it back
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health ...
Truman’s dream faces new challenges 60 years later as Medicare and Medicaid arrive at a crossroads
Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of ...
On This Day, July 30: Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare into law
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted ...
60 years of Medicaid: The next chapter is up to us
Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, promising that in America, access ...
Trump reinstates Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Do you think you could pass?
President Donald Trump has reinstated the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. These exercises are typically included in the ...
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Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump's tax cuts law chisels away at it
Americans broadly support increasing or maintaining funding for safety net programs, including Social Security and Medicare, ...
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Library dedicated to ‘daddy of Medicare’ celebrates program’s 60th year
July 30, 2025, marked 60 years of Medicare in the United States. The historic legislation was signed into law at the Harry S.
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When Lyndon B. Johnson came to Portland 60 years ago, a hundred ...
Then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson stands in the aisle of a commuter train and talks with passengers as it nears Greenwich, Conn., on the evening of Oct. 5, 1960. Nearly four years later, the then ...
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The Great Society at 50: Lyndon B. Johnson’s cultural vision mirrored ...
On May 22, 1964, in a University of Michigan graduation speech filled with references to excellence, inspiration and enrichment, Lyndon B. Johnson interspersed the word "beauty" or "beautiful ...