“If the Soviet Union weren’t exporting art ... Lyndon B. Johnson interspersed the word "beauty" or "beautiful" five times. It was not the first mention of the term "Great Society" — the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a utopian new vision for the United States under a vastly expanded federal government, which he dubbed the Great Society, on this day in history, Jan. 4 ...

“Poverty won.” Critics point out the enormous chunk of the annual federal budget that fund programs that started out as pieces of LBJ’s Great Society and complain that its provisions ...

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 ...

So I think that compromised LBJ’s ability to do more in the Great Society, and I think compelled him to enact some crime bills which flowed into the Nixon Administration as well. Lawrence ...

but this coming May 22 will mark 61 years since the inception of The Great Society. On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before 70,000 people in the University of Michigan stadium ...

LBJ gave Congress the task of declaring an "all-out war on human poverty and unemployment" and reforming "our tangled transportation and transit policies." The Great Society was the most ambitious ...

An archived copy of the Michigan Daily newspaper from 1964, documenting President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” speech. Lowenstein said he and another student, Ron Wilton, snickered at it ...

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 ...

In 1965, LBJ deployed those majorities to pass the Voting Rights Act, Medicare and a raft of social programs dubbed “The Great Society.” But in that same year, LBJ also escalated the U.S ...