Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th US President, is remembered for his ‘Great Society’ programmes, which aimed to combat poverty and racial injustice. However, his presidency was marred by the Vietnam War, ...

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

The Great Society was a set of programs proposed or enacted in the United States by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society were to end poverty and to end racial ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Inflation in the United States picked up in the late 1960s in the wake of the Vietnam War and spending on President Lyndon ...

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