On this day in 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. On the heels of John F. Kennedy’s tragic death, Americans had elected Johnson, his vice president, to the presidency by the largest popular vote in the nation’s history. Johnson used this mandate to push for improvements he believed would better Americans’ quality of life.
Following Johnson’s lead, Congress enacted sweeping legislation in the areas of civil rights, health care, education and the environment. The 1965 State of the Union address heralded the creation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the White House Conference on Natural Beauty. Johnson also signed the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities Act, out of which emerged the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through the Economic Opportunity Act, Johnson fought a War on Poverty by implementing improvements in early childhood education and fair employment policies. He was also a strong advocate for conservation, proposing the creation of a green legacy through preserving natural areas, open spaces and shorelines and building more urban parks. In addition, Johnson stepped up research and legislation regarding air- and water-pollution control measures.
Under Kennedy, then-Vice President Johnson led the government’s quest to develop American excellence in the sciences. As president, the ongoing technology race with the Soviet Union spurred Johnson to continue the vigorous national program of space exploration begun by Kennedy. During Johnson’s presidency, the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) achieved the extraordinary and unprecedented accomplishment of orbiting a man around the moon.
Though many of Johnson’s programs remain in place today, his legacy of a Great Society has been largely overshadowed by his decision to involve greater numbers of American soldiers in the controversial Vietnam War.
Thanks to his Great Society, he also said the niggers would vote Democrat for the next 200 years. He is probably correct – it may take 200 years before the blacks achieve enough intelligence to realize they have been snookered.
That reference does not imply that Johnson was a racist, although many would make that assumption – it was simply related to politics.
I lived in Detroit and through the 1967 riots…It seems that a number of important facts get left out.
1. “Blockbusting” by jewish real estate agents was rampant. These unscrupulous jews would send postcards to neighborhood residents stating “A “new family” is moving into your neighborhood. If you wish to sell your house, please call XXX-XXXX”). A “new family” was a euphemism for “blacks”. Real estate agents played on the (justified) fears of whites…
2. HUD (Housing and Urban Development) speculators would purchase the best houses on every block and raze them. This was an attempt to depress property values so that speculators could buy them “on the cheap”. I realize that this runs counter to #1, but, it is fact…
3. During the riots, black businesses spray-painted the words “soul brother” on their business buildings so that the “angel of death” (looters) would “pass them by”.
4. The “nail in the coffin” of Detroit was the election of the first black mayor Coleman A. Young. Fulfilling a campaign promise, this jew-enabled black POS abolished one of the most successful crime fighting programs (STRESS–Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets). This program utilized disguised police officers as vulnerable old men and women. When the predators would attack, they were quite often dispatched to “the great hereafter”. Too many of mayor Coleman A. Young’s “homeys” were meeting their maker.
Coleman Young got along with the “movers and shakers”, but detested all white people, showing it with abrasive and abusive language toward whites.
The decline of this once-great city can be laid at the feet of the jews and their black lackeys…
Seems the stress program made a error not killing the real estate agents involved in these crimes.
ALL citizens need to be armed,a new version of the stress program would work wonders short and long term in this country.
Fuck LBJ. That is all.
The “Great Society” was, in essence, was the Democrat run government claiming ownership of the freed blacks in place of their former plantation owners.
lbj was a piece of shit as earlier posted here.
JFK made a grave(pun intended)error when choosing him as running mate,lbj was the one the powers that want to be had in mind for controlling the country,the piece of shit Ike warned the nation about.
Lyndon Baines Johnson. A fine President and a stellar, upstanding kind of fellow, indeed! I remember him and the times rather well. Why, he was the guy who told the country about an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin that led the U.S deeper into a war that he wanted to be involved in. Boy oh boy he sure whipped people up into a frenzy to make those responsible pay for such despicable actions. He duped my Father. And me. That’s for sure. We sure weren’t the only ones, though. Only one problem……the incident never happened. It was a lie. We know that now, but not back then. We now call such things “a false flag.” Back then it would have been called just “a lie.”
The results of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s immoral behavior, and lie, was; Devastating. Horrendous. Unimaginable. Divisive. Wasteful. Expensive. Inexcusable. But not isolated. A couple presidents did the same thing decades later. They knew how well it worked when Johnson did it. One got us involved in a war in Iraq. Another got us involved in Syria. Same technique as LBJ. Different lies.
As for Johnson’s “Great Society” vision? Look around! It’s now a real live nightmare. The utopian vision of LBJ and what his administration sowed, we just now are starting to reap.
LBJ was one of the most sinister figures in American history. Corrupt, utterly uninterested in the long-term future of the USA, and almost certainly a murderer many times over. He and his vile team placed our country firmly on the road to ruin. When the history of the USA is written, he will play the role of a main villain.