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, ...

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal spending on ...

"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 ...

When Sullivan learned about Head Start, she had just moved from California to Maine with her husband, who was working ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson ... own humble beginnings, Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" as central to ...

Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” were signed into law. They were part of a massive set of legislation that was designed to eliminate poverty and racial ...

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 ...

Horizons Student Support Services is a federally funded program and part of numerous TRIO programs across the country which contribute to the mission of President Lyndon B. Johnson's legislative War ...

The front page of the Deseret News on Jan. 8, 1964, as President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to Congress, declaring a "War on Poverty." ...

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 ...