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So Richard Nixon was sworn in for his second term as president in January 1973.

First elected in the 1968 election, then reelected in the 1972 election.

So, inauguration day, he was sworn in for what would of course famously become his disastrous

second term in office in January, Saturday, January 20th, 1973. Two days after that, LBJ died.

The Nixon inauguration was on Saturday, and then on Monday, two days later, former Democratic

President Lyndon B. Johnson passed away at a heart attack.

And then two days after that, Nixon proclaimed that in the immediate aftermath of LBJ's

death, he, Richard Nixon, was going to kill one of LBJ's most

beloved projects. Two days after LBJ's death. Very classy.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Our chief weapons in a more pinpointed attack will be better schools and better health,

and better homes and better training, and better job opportunities to help more Americans,

especially young Americans, escape from squalor and misery.

For his war on poverty that he announced in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to create a new thing.

He asked them to create something called the Office of Economic Opportunity.

And I'm oversimplifying, but essentially all the things that Johnson wanted to do for Americans who were poor, for his war on poverty, the health care you'd do

with Medicaid and Medicare, but everything else you would do through this new Office of Economic

Opportunity. And it did a lot. That is, for example, where we got Head Start, the big preschool

program. That's where we got AmeriCorps. We got lots of programs serving Native Americans, for example.

So Lyndon Johnson made that, the Office of Economic Opportunity. It was really his baby from his war on poverty.

And Nixon declared he wanted it dead. Now, in Nixon's first term in office, he had tried to kill that agency. He had installed

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