"School Lunches"
Essay
By: Anne G. Eifler
Date: 1965
Source: Eifler, Anne G. "School Lunches." In Consumers All: The Yearbook of Agriculture, 1965. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1965, 475–476.
About the Author: Anne G. Eifler earned a Ph.D. in nutrition from Iowa State University in 1958 and joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service as a nutritionist in 1961. She retired from the department in 1995 and died in 2002 in Ames, Iowa.
Introduction
The federal government had promoted the health of Americans since Congress founded the Public Health Service in 1789. The federal commitment to health grew during the 1960s.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (served 1963–1969), who became president upon John F. Kennedy's (served 1961–1963) assassination, made the quality of Americans' health a priority. He crafted an ambitious agenda,...
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