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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

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." ...

"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 ...