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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For decades, the National Endowment for the Humanities cultivated wisdom and vision in Americans. Trump and Musk gutted it ...

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, ...

Kennedy, President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, illuminates how great speeches are drafted. Why it matters: With original documents from Goodwin — the husband of historian Doris ...

(TIME, April 12, 1968) -- Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of a second ... He is indelibly a part of the Great Society, tarnished by its failures as well as burnished by its successes.

At the beginning of 1968, no one could have predicted the reception that would greet President Lyndon Baines Johnson as he entered ... I see a great big orange ball with a needle in it," he ...

Grothman railed against President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program, which he claimed led to more abortions, more children being born out of wedlock, more divorce, and general social disorder.