The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.

Edited by Raymond L. Johnson and Ardath W. Winterwood and signed by both editors.

* 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

While Lampley was busy covering the trophy presentation, Bob Costas ( who also interviewed Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson and Dallas owner / general manager Jerry Jones together prior to the game ) covered for Lampley at the host and anaylsts ' desk ( and signed off the broadcast for NBC ).

764, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966.

* 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

* 1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3.

* 1965 – National Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

It is passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson Aug. 6.

It was finally entered into law in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson helped secure its passage and signed the Civil Rights Act.

He signed to star in the American revisionist western Hang ' Em High ( 1968 ), featuring alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur, playing a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and seeks revenge as a lawman after being lynched by vigilantes and left for dead.

The CPB was created on November 7, 1967, when U. S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

Sir Mix-a-Lot signed with the independent Artist Direct label for his 2003 album Daddy's Home with " Big Johnson " as its lead single.

Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including " race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin " On 24 September 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246, thereby replacing Executive Order 10925 and affirming Federal Government's commitment " to promote the full realization of equal employment opportunity through a positive, continuing program in each executive department and agency ".

When he returned to San Marcos in 1965, after having signed the Higher Education Act of 1965, Johnson looked back:

Johnson signed the revised and stronger bill into law on July 2, 1964.

In 1967, Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act to create educational television programs to supplement the broadcast networks.

On October 22, 1968, Lyndon Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968, one of the largest and farthest-reaching federal gun control laws in American history.

The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

On August 6, President Johnson signed the Act into law with Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and other civil rights leaders in attendance.

Final page of the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Johnson, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House

The Johnson Administration submitted eighty-seven bills to Congress, and Johnson signed eighty-four, or 96 %, arguably the most successful legislative agenda in U. S. Congressional history.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration Act of 1965 at Liberty Island as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy | Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and others look on.

The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act ( ch.

Johnson achieved Senate seniority as Chairman of the Committee on Cuban Relations in the Sixty-sixth Congress ; he was also a member of the Patents, Immigration, Territories and Insular Possessions and Commerce committees.

October 3, 1965: President Lyndon Johnson visits the Statue of Liberty to sign the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

Johnson was appointed Immigration Commissioner of the state of Wisconsin.

The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson – Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (), was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2 % of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3 % cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890.

He testified before Congressional committees in 1965 in favor of the historic Immigration Reform Act which was signed by President Johnson, ending discriminatory provisions against Italians and other groups.

Celler made his first important speech on the House floor during consideration of the Johnson Immigration Act of 1924.

October 3, 1965: President Johnson visited the Statue of Liberty to sign the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Hart-Celler Immigration Act, which phased out the national origins quota system first instituted in 1921.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 into law, abolishing several immigration quotas.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

In December 1852 Johnson realized his dream of passage in the House of his Homestead Act, which even garnered the support of Horace Greeley.

Since Congress was in recess, Johnson thought he could suspend Stanton without Senate approval and avoid violating the Tenure of Office Act.

When it reconvened in January 1868, the Senate disapproved of his action, and reinstated Stanton, contending Johnson had violated the Tenure of Office Act.

Three days after Stanton's removal, the House impeached Johnson for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act, by a vote of 128 to 47.

Since Lincoln rather than Johnson had appointed Stanton, the defense maintained the president had not violated the Act.

* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

In 1963 President Johnson inaugurated the Great Society and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act suffused public school programs with funds for sweeping education reforms.

** Andrew Johnson, Democrat / National Union, was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act.

* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

* 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law.

* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

* 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U. S. Congress " We shall overcome " while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

* 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Institutionalized racial segregation was ended as an official practice by the efforts of such civil rights activists as Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., working during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supported by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

This provision is known as the Johnson Act.

Congress has often explicitly limited the President's power to remove ; during the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, purportedly preventing Andrew Johnson from removing, without the advice and consent of the Senate, anyone appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate.

President Johnson ignored the Act, and was later impeached and acquitted.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.