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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Many of today’s problems started with the (not so) “Great Society”.
That’s how you know it’s working!
I was 14 when Kennedy was assassinated. Seeing Johnson swearing in on the plane, it was obvious that he conspired with a 3rd party ( CIA? ).
Since that time over $25 trillion dollars have been misspent that have destroyed the black family in America with a bow wave of cultural rot that is overtaking the rest of society with a speed that would make a cancer cell envious. Elements of the rest of the liberal world have also used this equation to justify their existence and maneuver their evil ignorant asses into their own budget lines and gravy train.
Right now they are fighting for their lives as the umbilical cord to ease, comfort, pleasure and free sh*t is in serious danger. Why is this so? Because the nation is bankrupt and has no money and it all started because Lyndon Baines Johnson thought that it was terrible that his family (read his lazy ass) had to haul water up from a creek for the family to exist on.
Thanks for drawing attention to one of the most worthless politicians in US History. May he live in infamy for all of the damage he did to freedom in the USA.
Boomers weren’t old enough to vote yet. Our parents and grandparents voted themselves a pay raise so they raised the amount WE pay.
So now we own nothing and our Be Happy coupon is still in the mail.
True happiness is knowing Jesus as Savior.
It was a joke Balbi. I made a funny. Wink Wink.
All happy coupons are to be delivered with your life insurance check.
ie-He started stealing from the SS trust fund and transferring the money to the elite. And as someone else mentioned, he destroyed the chance for the black race to be successful at the same time.
hands down, the best thing lbj (small letters intended) did was die.
Historical stuff about Lady Bird’s home town.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/07/16/letter-from-east-texas/14daef54-44c3-4c89-8a4a-d51d638814c1/
The Longhorn Army Ammunition plant in Karnack was somewhat of a legendary controversy or to some perhaps conspiracy and others inside cronyism.
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=110849
TNT blows stuff up baby!