On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” “Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved ...

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

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, ...

“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union address, January 8, 1964 This past Friday marked ...

President Lyndon B ... 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." They agonized over the military ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the ... Johnson declared “an unconditional war on poverty in America.” As his plans for conducting that war took shape, he began to speak ...

The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...