Standing on his presidential limousine, Lyndon Johnson, campaigning in Providence, R.I., in September 1964, bellowed through a bullhorn: “We’re in favor of a lot of things and we’re against mighty few ...
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 ...
President Lyndon Johnson speaking about the Great Society on the College Green of Ohio University in 1964. (Photo Provided) Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great ...
On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd of more than 80,000 at the University of Michigan’s football stadium in Ann Arbor. Having taken the oath of office just six months earlier ...
When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, he committed himself to pushing through an ambitious slate of anti-poverty and civil rights ...
The paradox of reform -- "I am a Roosevelt New Dealer"; liberalism ascendant -- Funding the Great Society and the War on Poverty -- The second reconstruction -- The mandate: the election of 1964 -- ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included key policies such as federal aid for education, Medicare for older Americans and the Medicaid health program for low-income citizens. These ...
"History and Fate," a temporary exhibition in Austin about the work of the late Richard Goodwin, speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy, ...
NEW YORK — About halfway through “The Great Society,” the overstuffed, underbaked play by Robert Schenkkan that opened Tuesday at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, something strange happens to Lyndon B.
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