Johnson attending Commencement Exercises at ... toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all.

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 ...

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

Similarly, a play called The Great Society, which premiered in 2014 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is heading to Broadway in 2017. Johnson is the star of that narrative as well. The name of ...

On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave, to sit on the highest court in the land...Visions of a Great Society swallowed up in the quagmire of Vietnam ...

Johnson sat at home with his team and spent five hours mapping what would become the Great Society agenda. “He knew with stunning precision the mountaintop to which he was going to summon people ...

Johnson's legacy: THE GREAT SOCIETY. Capturing Johnson's passionate and aggressive attempts to build a great society for all, THE GREAT SOCIETY follows his epic triumph in a landslide election to ...

Kennedy, Johnson used this moment to explain a policy agenda for the country that he called the Great Society. “I was actually reading over his shoulder on the teleprompter,” said Roger ...

on July 4, 1910 for the first "Fight of the Century," the bout matching the outspoken African-American against "The Great White Hope." Johnson became the first to floor Jeffries, whose corner gave ...

It’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always this way. Until Lyndon Johnson and the 1960s Great Society, the most significant fact about the federal government’s policy towards higher education ...

“Maine will again be a leader for the nation, a leader in creating a more abundant America, a leader in building the Great Society,” Johnson said in his remarks. “Yes, Maine will again be a ...

We compare the mark on the economy made by two presidents: Joe Biden and Lyndon Johnson. Sign up for the ... Decades after the promise of "The Great Society" for Americans, President Biden is ...