Vice President Kamala Harris has touted an economic vision for America called the “Opportunity Society.” The agenda harkens ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of ... giving millions of seniors medical care. Johnson played a great role in space exploration during his time in the White House and through his ...

Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in ...

Begun by John F. Kennedy and completed by Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society was one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation ever enacted in American history. On its surface, the Great ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into ... We never knew when we would work or play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." ...

As Robert Rector of Heritage Foundation wrote in January, if we judge Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society only by the dollars spent to improve the lives of the poor and near-poor, an astronomical $20 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs were essentially laid out by John F. Kennedy but blocked by the Republican Party. Johnson was able to pass bills that reduced infant mortality, ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...