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 ...

Johnson’s Great Society garnered strong support not only ... in part, the sad result of Lyndon Johnson’s well-meaning miscalculations. We are living through the collapse of the traditional ...

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 ...

"History and Fate," a temporary exhibition in Austin about the work of the late Richard Goodwin, speechwriter to President ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

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 ...

President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back protections that have shaped American life for nearly six decades. Why it matters: ...

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, ...

T he so-called swinging sixties were known, in the US at least, for the Great Society - a catch-all label for policies enacted by President Lyndon Johnson such as reducing poverty and putting more ...