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| | The FOIA and President Lyndon Johnson |
 | | President Lyndon Johnson’s Statement Upon Signing the FOIA (Press Release, Office of the White House Press Secretary, "Statement by the President Upon Signing S.1160”, dated July 4, 1966 |
 | | On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson reluctantly—see his statement below identifying the tension between protection and dissemination of information—signed into law the Freedom Of Information Act. |
 | | The bill that Johnson signed was the effort of several legislators, principal among them US Rep. John Moss (D-CA), a leading consumer advocate, who had begun his crusade of investigations, reports and hearings on government information policy in 1955. |
| www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/nsa/foia/lbj.html (3752 words) |
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