How were American Presidents, from 1945-1968, influenced by the new deal?

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and civil rights reforms were an outreach of the New Deal.

The Great Society was a series of domestic initiatives announced in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson at Ann Arbor, Michigan. A main focus of these social reforms to "end to poverty and racial injustice" was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The efforts also helped establish the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Other programs included:

VISTA

Job Corps

Upward Bound

Neighborhood Youth Corps

Head Start

an unconditional war on poverty

Medicare/Medicaid

Johnson also passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Affirmative Action (Executive Order 11246, later amended by Executive Order 11375).

Johnson also made the Food Stamp program permanent.