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 ...

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 ...

The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. Johnson also had more success in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such sentiment likely led to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision not ... tangled transportation and transit policies.” The Great Society was the most ambitious slate of domestic policy ...