On January 4, 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.
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…and they lived happily ever after…
LBJ’s great society…wherein “we’ll have those emmer effers voting for us for the next 100 years”. What a champ.
The word he used was “niggers.” Just for clarification.
This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power.
President Lyndon Banes Johnson signing the 1965 Immigration Action
The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants.
Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/03/wall-street-journal-demographic-shift-replace-trump-base/
A report by the Wall Street Journal details how a “demographic shift” — with the help of more than 1.2 million legal immigrants being admitted to the United States every year — is changing the American electorate in favor of Democrats.
Sorry don’t remember who recommended “The Iron Curtain Over America” by Beaty, but it’s fantastic. He goes into great detail about the demographic shifts starting in the late 1800’s. Although the US had fairly strong immigration laws leading up to the 1965 act, millions of (((eastern Europeans))) immigrated, some legally but mostly illegally. FDR had an EO that prohibited excluding hiring based on nationality or origin, resulting in a flood of (((eastern European communists))) taking significant numbers of government roles. So although the Hart Cellar act was the final straw, the path to destruction was already set well before then.
And “have them niggers voting for democrats for 200 hundred years”
This has given us the modern day entitlement state, baby mama’s, baby daddy’s, rampant crimes committed by niggers, shootings by niggers, all major metropolitan cites ruined by niggers, nigger culture… on and on.
I maintain LBJ had a hand in JFK’s assassination.
Winky, winky.
“I maintain LBJ had a hand in JFK’s assassination.”
Agree! In part because he damn sure robbed his way into the Senate:
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4748406/alice_official_admits_in_1977_he/
https://www.eiu.edu/historia/matteson.pdf
I always thought it was Lady Bird. She had such a huge smile on her face when LBJ gave his first remarks as President and as soon as he said “it is a sad day for America”, she immediately went into frown mode. Her and her daddy’s money got him elected the first time.
The LBJ version of Hitler’s “Final Solution” speech to the Reichstag. One could likely make the case that even more lives have been destroyed and permanently affected.
No president, in my lifetime, has done more to destroy America than LBJ. His (Not So) Great Society destroyed the core family and created generations of givernment dependent people. You can go into Memphrica (as well as other large cities) and find 5 generations of women who have lived in public housing their entire life and not a single one of them has ever held a job. Young girls dream of having a baby so they can get their own apartment and start getting their monthly payments.