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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan will return to Broadway with the second of his two exhilarating dramas celebrating Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy: 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 ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson ... in Dallas, Johnson sat at home with his team and spent five hours mapping what would become the Great Society agenda.

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 ...