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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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Reagan tried to undo most of the Great Society programs that were created by Lyndon Johnson.
It was something that folks, particularly the Department of Justice, discussed because Reagan was coming in at a time that was post鈥揘ew Deal, post鈥揋reat Society.
Johnson also used Sequoia to discuss Vietnam strategy and to convince lawmakers to support his Great Society reforms.
Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, no Democratic president measured up to the Biden-Harris administration鈥檚 progressive street cred since LBJ鈥檚 Great Society.
Caro鈥檚 suspicion of the government鈥檚 ability to do good is another product of its post-Watergate, post-Vietnam, post鈥揋reat Society moment, argues Jacob Anbinder, a historian and fellow at Cornell University working on a book about the origins of the housing affordability crisis.
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