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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, during the first six months of 1965, Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict 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, ...

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 ...

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.

President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B ... marked "the high tide of the Great Society," Updegrove told Axios, referring to Johnson's vast domestic agenda aimed ...

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

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 ...