tion in employment, education, and public accom-
modations based on race, color, religion, or national 
origin. 
(5) On November 8, 1965, President Johnson 
signed into law the Higher Education Act, which 
provided need-based financial aid to students in the 
form of scholarships, work-study grants, and loans, 
and thus made higher education more accessible to 
populations of persons who were previously unable to 
attend college because of economic circumstances. 
(6) On October 3, 1965, President Johnson 
signed into law the Immigration and Naturalization 
Act of 1965, which transformed the Nation’s immi-
gration system by abolishing the racially based quota 
system that had defined American immigration pol-
icy for four decades and replaced it with a policy 
whose central purpose was family reunification, with 
a preference for immigrants with specific skill sets. 
(7) According to Robert A. Caro, the pre-
eminent biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson, with 
the single exception of Lincoln, President Johnson 
was the greatest champion of the poor and under-
privileged in the history of the Republic and was the 
President ‘‘who wrote mercy and justice into the 
statute books by which America was governed’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President pro tem-
pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 
for the posthumous award, on behalf of Congress, of a 
gold medal of appropriate design to Lyndon Baines John-
son in recognition of his contributions to the Nation, in-
cluding passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 
1965, the Social Security Amendments Act (Medicare) of 
1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Higher Education 
Act of 1965, and the Immigration and Naturalization Act 
of 1965. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 
of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, 
devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(c) LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY AND MU-
SEUM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Following the award of the 
gold medal under subsection (a), the gold medal 
shall be given to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Li-
brary and Museum, where it will be available for dis-
play as appropriate and available for research. 
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(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
the Congress that the Lyndon Baines Johnson Li-
brary and Museum should make the gold medal 
awarded pursuant to this Act available for display 
elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations asso-
ciated with Lyndon Baines Johnson. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 
under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at 
a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, 
and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 4. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—The medals struck pursu-
ant to this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 
51 of title 31, United States Code. 
(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of sections 
5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals 
struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic 
items. 
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