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 ...

“From 1963, when Lyndon Johnson took office, until 1970, as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22.2 percent ...

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 ...

President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." They agonized over the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Lyndon Johnson would likely recognize the ... the accomplishments of FDR’s New Deal programs and, later, LBJ’s Great Society. In the controversial 900-page Project 2025 program crafted by ...