On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” “Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved ...

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 John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson ... own humble beginnings, Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" as central to ...

"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 ...

It’s no secret that the War on Poverty hasn’t been as successful as Americans had hoped it would be when President Lyndon Johnson first announced his federal anti-poverty effort, known as the ...

On Jan. 8, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson initiated the war on poverty with the U.S. rate around 19%. Today, the rate is around 13%. These numbers do not include the millions who are employed ...

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 ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...