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 ...

Only in the U.S. can a boy born in a rural Texas farmhouse with no electricity or running water one day grow up to hold the most powerful office in the world. But President Lyndon Baines Johnson ...

Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” were signed into law. They were part of a ...

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 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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...