Great Society

noun

the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.

Great Society

The name President Lyndon Johnson gave to his aims in domestic policy. The programs of the Great Society had several goals, including clean air and water, expanded educational opportunities, and the lessening of poverty and disease in the United States. (See War on Poverty.)

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But it’s also true that in trying to include something for everyone in his Great Society, Johnson created something—many things—for everyone to object to.

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Reagan tried to undo most of the Great Society programs that were created by Lyndon Johnson.

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It was something that folks, particularly the Department of Justice, discussed because Reagan was coming in at a time that was post–New Deal, post–Great Society.

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Johnson also used Sequoia to discuss Vietnam strategy and to convince lawmakers to support his Great Society reforms.

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Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, no Democratic president measured up to the Biden-Harris administration’s progressive street cred since LBJ’s Great Society.

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