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Five months later, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. ht hours, to attend the meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and sign a series of denucleariz In early November,Congressional Quarterly reported that I had enjoyed a higher success rate with Congress than any President in his first year since President Eisenhower in 1953. Though the ink was barely dry on the budget plan, I wanted to get started on health care and thought the governors might help, because

van Bayh, while Ohio governor George Voinovich seemed certain to win the seat being vacated by John Glenn for the Republicans. We discussed the election, foreign policy, and the budget negotiations. It was a busy but fairly normal month, except for an unhappy trip I took to Springfield, Oregon, where a trou Time was running out on that, too.