In 1964 Johnson went to the University of Michigan to deliver one of the most consequential speeches of his presidency, unveiling the Great Society programs that would become the largest ...

These are three of the central issues of the Great Society. While our Government has many programs directed at those issues, I do not pretend that we have the full answer to those problems.

Johnson's legacy: THE GREAT SOCIETY. Capturing Johnson's passionate ... and the creation of some of the greatest social programs America has ever known-and one man was at the center of it all ...

But that's exactly what Democrats are afraid of--redistributive programs that take resources from the suburbs to pay for the problems of the cities. That sounds like the Great Society programs ...

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 ...

which would eliminate the budget deficit by severely cutting domestic programs bequeathed by the New Deal and the Great Society. And it can be found as well in post-election calls for a right turn ...

"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 ...

So popular were these reforms, cementing Social Security’s enduring appeal, that the 1940 GOP platform endorsed the program. Later linked to Medicare, the sole Great Society program premised on ...

Roosevelt, the Great Society programs under Lyndon B. Johnson, and landmark civil rights legislation like the Civil Rights ...

BC students’ presence inspires them and they, in turn, are a source of great inspiration for us. The Ignatian Society's Alumni Programs committee organizes and facilitates events for the 600+ Jesuit ...

Progressivism is not a new term. Eclipsing the Populist Period of the late 19th century, which embraced a “radical ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.