President Lyndon Johnson speaking about the Great Society on the College Green of Ohio University in 1964. (Photo Provided) Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s ...

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 ...

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 ... and most helpless of its citizens. April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam.

"History and Fate," a temporary exhibition in Austin about the work of the late Richard Goodwin, speechwriter to President ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

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

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, ...

“No one who heard the President can doubt his sincerity,” The Nation observed, “but neither can we forget the lateness of his conversion.” Broadcast of Lyndon B. Johnson's “We Shall ...

(JTA) — After John F. Kennedy was killed and Lyndon Johnson became the 36th president, LBJ told an Israeli diplomat, “You have lost a very great friend. But you have found a better one.” ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...