A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” In 1790, President George Washington delivered the first State ...

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, ...

President Lyndon B ... 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 the military ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the ... Johnson declared “an unconditional war on poverty in America.” As his plans for conducting that war took shape, he began to speak ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon ... there was the poverty program. Johnson admits that his “unconditional war” against ...

Key fact There is ongoing debate about how successful Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’ was. The proportion of people living in poverty in America was reduced from around 17 per cent in 1964 to 11 ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...