Lyndon Johnson backs family planning at home and abroad
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- Fatal Misconception - The Struggle to Control World pp. 261-264 · open book
When, in 1965, Lyndon Johnson began backing family planning both at home and abroad, he presented it as part of a global war on poverty, explaining that his vision of a great society “did not stop at our boundary.” While USAID supplied contraception abroad, Sargent Shriver’s Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) funded the first programs at home.