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The Great Society
Great Society, The LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS FUNDING PROBLEMS THE GREAT SOCIETY REVISITED BIBLIOGRAPHY The term Great Society, which refers to the set of domestic programs initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson, who became the U.S. president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, was coined... Read more |
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Great Society
Great Society in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson . In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of a "Great Society," a prosperous nation that had overcome racial divisions. To this end, Johnson proposed an... Read more |
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Lyndon
Lyndon ♂ English: transferred use of the surname, derived from Lyndon, a place in the former county of Rutland (now part of Leicestershire), so called from Old English lind ‘linden, lime tree’ + dūn ‘hill’. Its modern use as a male given name owes something... Read more |
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War on Poverty
War on Poverty MOBILIZATION FOR YOUTH THE FEDERAL ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM OF THE KENNEDY JOHNSON ADMINISTRATIONS THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY DEVELOPMENTS UNDER NIXON AND LATER ADMINISTRATIONS CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY The war on poverty of the John F.... Read more |
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John William Gardner
John William Gardner 1912-2002, American public official, U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare (1965-68), b. Los Angeles. After teaching psychology at Connecticut and Mt. Holyoke colleges and serving as an intelligence officer with the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, he joined the... Read more |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908-73, 36th President of the United States (1963-69), b. near Stonewall, Tex. Early Life Born into a farm family, he graduated (1930) from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Southwest Texas State Univ.), in San Marcos. He taught in a Houston high school before... Read more |
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Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson 1912-, b. Karnack, Tex., as Claudia Alta Taylor. She married (1934) Lyndon B. Johnson and played an active role in his political career. As first lady (1963-69) she sponsored environmental causes and national beautification projects and later co-founded (1982) what is now the... Read more |
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Wise Men
WISE MEN WISE MEN (1968). The term, whose authorship is obscure, refers to President Lyndon B. Johnson's select gathering in March 1968 of certain experienced officials (including several from earlier Democratic administrations) to advise him on Vietnam War policy following the enemy's Tet... Read more |
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Arthur Goldberg
Arthur Goldberg 1908-90, American labor lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-65), b. Chicago. He received his law degree from Northwestern Univ. in 1929. A corporation lawyer, he became a labor specialist after representing the Chicago newspaper guild in a strike... Read more |
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McGeorge Bundy
McGeorge Bundy 1919-96, U.S. educator and government official, b. Boston. An Army intelligence officer during World War II, he was on the Harvard faculty 1949-61, becoming the youngest dean of the faculty of arts and sciences in 1953. As the special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon... Read more |
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LBJ EXPRESSED GRAVE DOUBTS ON VIETNAM IN '64, TAPES SHOW
...President Lyndon B. Johnson called the...get out." Johnson made the...Richard B. Russell...Friday by the LBJ Presidential...president, Johnson agonized...office if he tried to withdraw...Vietnamese to fight the North...and other Great Society ... |
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LBJ Agonized Over U.S. Commitment in Vietnam, Tapes Show
...President Lyndon B. Johnson called the...get out." Johnson made the...today by the LBJ Presidential...president, Johnson agonized...office if he tried to withdraw...Vietnamese to fight the North...and other Great Society legislation... |
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How to lose a war
...stewardship of Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ pursued a...rights and the Great Society - yet failure...abandoned the fight in Vietnam...There was no society-wide commitment...Obama has tried to explain...necessary for society- building...leaving their ... |
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Move over, Herb
...to Point B with directional...Bush has tried to emulate...pretext to fight Spain in...a "near great" president...to that of Lyndon B. Johnson during the...War. But LBJ had major...the Great Society and Vietnam...They call Johnson fiscally... |
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Mr. Conservative: 1909-1998
...while President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had buried...reason for LBJ's decision...the war that Johnson had promised...American boys" to fight, the war that...known as the Great Society. A Politician...housing officials tried to oust a woman... |
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HE AIN'T MY BROTHER, HE'S TOO HEAVY.(Editorial)(Column)
...gear. President Lyndon B. Johnson, for instance...loyal service. LBJ thought Richard...war limp on and tried to sink the Great Society programs. Clinton...responsibility even though Johnson was working against...And a Senate fight over confirming... |
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AT LEAST GORE HAS LEARNED ABOUT SURVIVAL.(MAIN)
...gear. President Lyndon B. Johnson, for instance...loyal service. LBJ thought Richard...war limp on and tried to sink the Great Society programs. Clinton...responsibility even though Johnson was working against...And a Senate fight over confirming... |