One of the central tenets of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)'s "War on Poverty," declared on January 8, 1964 in his State of the Union speech, was that "[w]e must distribute more food to the needy through a broader food stamp program." Sargent Shriver, in 1964, after being charged by LBJ to implement and administrate the "War on Poverty," said:
