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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked ... and spent five hours mapping what would become the Great Society agenda. “He knew with stunning precision ...

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