Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
Civil rights and his great society.
The Great Society usually refers to Johnson's social programs which were more or less based on what Johnson believed Kennedy intended to do had he lived.
The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, and the removal of obstacles
The Great Society was NOT the result of the Vietnam war. They were a set of domestic programs and the main objective of the programs was the elimination of poverty and inequality. Medicare is one of the programs that came about as a result of the programs. Federal funding for education was also part of the Great Society. In the last two or three months much of these programs have been eliminated or will be changed.
government involvement in guaranteeing civil rights
Civil rights and his great society.
Lyndon Johnson was the one whose domestic programs were known as the Great Society package.
Lyndon Johnson
The Great Society
His program was known as the Great Society.
AnswerI'm not sure what Johnson did in 1960, but in 1964, having assumed the presidency after the Kennedy assassination in 1963, he launched a program called the Great Society. The following link will take you to a 1964 graduation speech he made in Michigan in which he talks about the Great Society. http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/great.html
The Great Society
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Johnson was the President who started the Great Society programs. The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
President Lyndon B. Johnson created domestic programs that were referred to as the Great Society. The programs were designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
Lyndon Johnson