meh
Reading the wiki on it lead me to
this page on RFK and Joseph Clark's tour of Mississippi Delta in 1967. RFK was shocked and pissed at how poor people (particularly poor black people) were and wanted to do something about it, LBJ, as usual, was a cock and did what he could to block Food Stamp expansion/reform.
Several Johnson administration officials, in addition to Freeman, were skeptical of the reports of starvation in the Delta. Johnson had seen the news coverage of the event and on April 17 he ordered that his top domestic aide, Joseph Califano, give him a "quick report." Califano replied 20 minutes later, writing that Freeman was hesitant to make major changes to the administration's food stamp program until the original system was sanctioned by Congress.[22] When his aides unanimously approved of an extensive relief plan, Johnson, already uneasy about the food stamp program, rejected the proposal. Kennedy made a direct appeal to Johnson involving increased subsidization of food stamps and the supplement of emergency food rations for 40,000–60,000 of the most impoverished Mississippians. Johnson ignored it, a decision an editorial in The Nation claimed was due to the fact that he was "incapable of rising above personal politics."
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In the end, Kennedy managed to amend the renewal of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to include provisions for a national survey on nutrition. Stennis was so embarrassed by the hearings that he proposed a $10 million emergency fund be established for food and medical services.[19] Despite resistance from other Southern legislators and a lack of support from President Johnson, Stennis' bill passed.
RFK was 100 times better at being a human than LBJ was
