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Great Society
President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society," an agenda to combat poverty, strengthen civil rights and public education, renew urban communities, and protect the environment, was criticized by some for increasing government size.
every president....it's one of his roles
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Great Society
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
President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society," an agenda to combat poverty, strengthen civil rights and public education, renew urban communities, and protect the environment, was criticized by some for increasing government size.
Although he ran for President as a radical, Andrew Johnson\'s policies were not favorable to the Radical Republican\'s agenda. The Radical Republicans did not respond favorably to Andrew Johnson\'s policies and they were a vote short from impeaching him.
The Domestic Agenda can be summed up as follows "Johnson labeled his ambitious domestic agenda "The Great Society." The most dramatic parts of his program concerned bringing aid to underprivileged Americans, regulating natural resources, and protecting American consumers. There were environmental protection laws, landmark land conservation measures, the profoundly influential Immigration Act, bills establishing a National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Highway Safety Act, the Public Broadcasting Act, and a bill to provide consumers with some protection against shoddy goods and dangerous products."
The president has to pass his political agenda through Congress within 4 years.
The new deal was a term applied to Franklin Roosevelt's social agenda. To some extent LBJ carried on in the FDR tradition with Great Society progams.
every president....it's one of his roles
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Although he ran for President as a radical, Andrew Johnson\'s policies were not favorable to the Radical Republican\'s agenda. The Radical Republicans did not respond favorably to Andrew Johnson\'s policies and they were a vote short from impeaching him.
Newcomen Society's motto is 'Actorum memores simul affectamus agenda'.
lyndon B Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., helped to escalate American involvement in Vietnam by sending more troops to war. This stimulated an anti-war movement and his domestic policies failed.