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.

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, ...

"History and Fate," a temporary exhibition in Austin about the work of the late Richard Goodwin, speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, ...

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 ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15 ... was a betrayal of basic American ideals of justice. With great emphasis, he declared that it was “wrong, deadly wrong ...