LSC's 2009 Annual Report recounts the founding of the Corporation in 1974 and its evolution into the nation's single largest funder of civil legal assistance to the poor. The report charts LSC's path to independence from 1964, when President Lyndon B. Johnson began the "war on poverty," to July 25, 1974, when President Richard M. Nixon signed the LSC Act, establishing the Corporation. The report also highlights the critical legal services provided to clients of LSC-funded programs across the nation in 2009.

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