by MICHELLE & BARACK OBAMA
The bill we’re signing into law today actually has its roots in the National School Lunch program signed into law by President Truman after World War II. And it also has roots in the Child Nutrition Act that was passed just two decades after that in 1966. Now, the idea for that act came from a priest named Revered C.B. Woodrich, who worked with children in Denver, Colorado.
Many of these kids were going hungry because they couldn’t afford to buy lunch. Reverend Woodrich thought that was unconscionable, and he decided to do something about it. So he somehow managed to talk his way into a meeting with President Johnson. He arrived at the Oval Office without any kind of report or presentation or speech. Instead, he simply brought an enormous album filled with the photos of children in need, which he promptly spread across the President’s desk.
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