PBS12 年
The Great Society, U. Michigan, 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson attending Commencement ... to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance ...
WGBH1 年
Lyndon B. Johnson
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...
BBC1 年
President Johnson’s Great Society
The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. Johnson also had more success in ...
insider.si.edu5 个月
Knowing the Presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...
PBS4 年
Lyndon B. Johnson
Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs ...
Marketplace22 天
How the relationship between government and economy has changed since “The Great Society”
An archived copy of the Michigan Daily newspaper from 1964, documenting President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” speech. (Screengrab taken from Michigan Daily Digital Archives October 1 ...
Countdown to 47: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Thirty-Sixth President
Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in ...
The American Conservative7 年
LBJ vs. the Nuclear Family
The man behind it was President Lyndon Baines ... of his massive Great Society. Earlier this year HBO transformed a hit Broadway play into a television special lauding Johnson’s 1964 campaign ...
Shuwaski Young: 'I am a Christian conservative'
As I have said before, Mississippi raised me in the spirit of Medgar Evers, who once said: “The gifts of God should be ...
The New York Times17 小时
5 Books to Read About Policing Before You Vote
Today, the B.L.M. era feels far away, like another country ... Mobilizing a dizzying array of historical data, she shows that ...
Portland Press Herald26 天
When Lyndon B. Johnson came to Portland 60 years ago, a hundred thousand followed
When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland ... a leader in building the Great Society,” Johnson said in his remarks. “Yes, Maine will again be a leader and will serve as a bulwark ...
Opinion: Harris’s ‘Opportunity Society’ is in the shadow of LBJ’s War on Poverty
Vice President Kamala Harris has touted an economic vision for America called the “Opportunity Society ... marks the 60th ...