Johnson’s Great Society garnered strong support not only ... in part, the sad result of Lyndon Johnson’s well-meaning miscalculations. We are living through the collapse of the traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mobilizing a dizzying array of historical data, she shows that the “war on crime” and the Great Society, Lyndon Johnson’s ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On Nov. 29, 1963, just seven days after he became President of the U.S. because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order No. 11,130, setting up a blue-ribbon ...

Over the past three years inflation has gone from “transitory” to “persistent” to, well, boring. Across the developed world ...

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