"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson attending Commencement ... to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance ...

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into ... 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." ...

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, ...

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

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union ... created in the mid-1960s — under the umbrella of the Great Society — to aid the poor, the young, the elderly and ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson ... in Dallas, Johnson sat at home with his team and spent five hours mapping what would become the Great Society agenda.

When last we hung out with ol' Beej, he was slung against a fence post, chawing a strand of hay (did we imagine this?), telling tales about this and that while rocking his Stetson, rancher blue ...

Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president, many people were unsure whether he would continue with Kennedy’s policies on race and society.

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 ...