Prior to 1965, federal legislation affecting colleges ... we ought to remember that the vision of the Great Society has been tried and it came up short. We’re still suffering its not-so-great ...

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming -- always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting ...

In spring 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan ... Writer Myron Magnet observed that the “dream’’ of the Great Society has become a “nightmare’’ for the very people that the Great Society ...

Today, Medicare, a Great Society program, is the second biggest line item on the federal budget — about 14% of total federal spending. The Civil Rights, the Voting Rights Act and the 1965 ...

1965 Housing and Urban Development Act To provide ... As more money and effort were needed to conduct the war, Johnson’s Great Society programme became neglected. Increasing numbers of people ...

Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in ...

David Leonhardt tells the story in the language of economic analysis.

The idea of generations also allows us to see how different age cohorts interact with their surroundings and how their common experiences contribute to changes in society over time ... who were born ...

Calling someone a socialist, communist, or Marxist is still occasionally considered an insult in the United States. But what ...

Occasionally outsiders forget that these are not linked solely to Soviet intrusion but have their roots in the nineteenth century, in the great trauma associated with ... the creation of a modern ...

the Society of the Four Arts, the Everglades Club, and the Bath and Tennis Club. Betty Stoll Groth, who was married for 73 ...

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming -- always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting ...