A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” In 1790, President George Washington delivered the first State ...

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

A final important aspect of the War on Poverty is its place in the political competition between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson which dominated Washington at the time. It was Johnson who ...

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, ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the ... Johnson declared “an unconditional war on poverty in America.” As his plans for conducting that war took shape, he began to speak ...

President Lyndon Johnson initiated the war on poverty with the U.S. rate around 19%. Today, the official poverty rate is ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon ... Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his family ...

The front page of the Deseret News on Jan. 8, 1964, as President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to Congress, declaring a "War on Poverty." A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret ...