<P> The Food Stamp Act of 1964 made the program permanent, while the Social Security Amendments of 1967 specified that at least 6% of monies for maternal and child health should be spent on family planning . By 1967, the federal government began requiring state health departments to make contraceptives available to all adults who were poor . Meal programs for low - income senior citizens began in 1965, with the federal government providing funding for "congregate meals" and "home - delivered meals ." The Child Nutrition Act, passed in 1966, made improvements to nutritional assistance to children such as in the introduction of the School Breakfast Program . </P> <P> In September 1965, Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act into law, creating both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities as separate, independent agencies . Lobbying for federally funded arts and humanities support began during the Kennedy Administration . In 1963 three scholarly and educational organizations--the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Council of Graduate Schools in America, and the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa--joined together to establish the National Commission on the Humanities . In June 1964, the commission released a report that suggested that the emphasis placed on science endangered the study of the humanities from elementary schools through postgraduate programs . In order to correct the balance, it recommended "the establishment by the President and the Congress of the United States of a National Humanities Foundation ." </P> <P> In August 1964, Representative William S. Moorhead of Pennsylvania proposed legislation to implement the commission's recommendations . Support from the White House followed in September, when Johnson lent his endorsement during a speech at Brown University . In March 1965, the White House proposed the establishment of a National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities and requested $20 million in start - up funds . The commission's report had generated other proposals, but the White House's approach eclipsed them . The administration's plan, which called for the creation of two separate agencies each advised by a governing body, was the version that the Congress approved . Richard Nixon dramatically expanded funding for NEH and NEA . </P> <P> After the First National Conference on Long - Range Financing of Educational Television Stations in December 1964 called for a study of the role of noncommercial education television in society, the Carnegie Corporation agreed to finance the work of a 15 - member national commission . Its landmark report, Public Television: A Program for Action, published on January 26, 1967, popularized the phrase "public television" and assisted the legislative campaign for federal aid . The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, enacted less than 10 months later, chartered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a private, non-profit corporation . </P>

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