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The Great Society, U. Michigan, 1964
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 ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
"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 ...
Countdown to 47: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Thirty-Sixth President
Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in ...
insider.si.edu5mon
Knowing the Presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson
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, ...
CNN9y
How LBJ scared visitors at his ranch
President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into ... We never knew when we would work or play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." ...
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How the relationship between government and economy has changed since “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 ...
Shuwaski Young: 'I am a Christian conservative'
As I have said before, Mississippi raised me in the spirit of Medgar Evers, who once said: “The gifts of God should be ...
Opinion: Harris’s ‘Opportunity Society’ is in the shadow of LBJ’s War on Poverty
Vice President Kamala Harris has touted an economic vision for America called the “Opportunity Society ... marks the 60th ...
Portland Press Herald27d
When Lyndon B. Johnson came to Portland 60 years ago, a hundred thousand followed
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 ...
The New York Times1d
5 Books to Read About Policing Before You Vote
Today, the B.L.M. era feels far away ... Mobilizing a dizzying array of historical data, she shows that the “war on crime” ...
Cambridge University Press11mon
The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson
This book will offer a fresh up-to-date balanced overview of Johnson's policies across a range of theatres and issues with the aim of generating a proper understanding of his successes and failures in ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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 ...