Friends of the LBJ Library | Dec, 16 2025 6:30PM - 8:00PM
2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the high tide of the Great Society, which saw transformational change in America through the landmark laws President Lyndon Johnson brought to fruition: voting rights, immigration reform, federal aid to education, the creation of Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, Pell Grants, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Endowment of the Arts and the Humanities, and more.
On December 16, we gathered to examine the state of Medicare and voting rights—and the nation at large—at that time. The program was organized into two 40-minute conversations.
Speakers included:
- Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Senior fellow at The Century Foundation, Director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2021 to 2025
- Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, co-host of the morning edition of “The Weekend” on MS NOW, political analyst on PBS “News Hour”
- Dr. Michael Hole, Executive Director, The Impact Factory, Professor at Dell Medical School and LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
- Celina Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, League of Women Voters
- Mark K. Updegrove, President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation
The Friends of the LBJ Library hosted this program.
Video & Photos
(L-R) Mark Updegrove, Celina Stewart and Jonathan Capehart. LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin.
Medicare and Voting Rights: From LBJ to Current Day
On December 16, 2025, the LBJ Library held two discussions that examined the state of Medicare and Voting Rights 60 years after President Lyndon Johnson passed a series of landmark laws that transformed America.
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