Signing of the Medicare Bill

This video consists of MP 334, which is black and white and silent, 30 min., and MP 330, 1:17 minutes long with 40 seconds of audio at the end. They depict President Johnson signing the Medicare Bill at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, and presenting President Truman with the first Medicare card.

Index terms: Medicare Bill; Bill Signing; Truman Library; Trips, US; Independence, MO.

Both MP 330 and MP 334 are known as LBJ Signs Medicare Bill, 7-30-65, and both were produced by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public domain.
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