he was joining President Lyndon Johnson not just as a cabinet member, but as the engineer of his ambitious agenda of social reform known as the "Great Society." In the wake of President Kennedy's ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the ... “We will build a Great Society,” he told a gathering at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, on May 7. “It is a society where no child ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." They agonized over the ...

NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

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, ...

In Lyndon Johnson’s eventful presidency ... agriculture. In his Great Society speech at the University of Michigan last May, he addressed himself eloquently to the country’s problems.

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen ... Even in this sphere he has succeeded magnificently on occasion. His Great Society speech at Ann Arbor in 1964 offered Americans a stirring ...

T he so-called swinging sixties were known, in the US at least, for the Great Society - a catch-all label for policies enacted by President Lyndon Johnson such as reducing poverty and putting more ...

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 ...