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 Aeronautics 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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“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.”
Lyndon-I Killed Kennedy-Johnson upon signing the 1965 Hart-Celler Act
Washington DC:
See or create a problem, exacerbate the problem, publicize the problem, offer & fund a solution to the problem that makes it worse, blame failed solution on not enough funding, increase funding. Lather, rinse, repeat.
National debt 1965 $317 Billion….National debt 2023 $32 Trillion…..BTW a Trillion is 1000 billion…
To all black People refusing the new plantation existence remember what LBJ and the “DIXIE CRATS” really got and what was indicated behind closed doors “We will give them niggers just enough that they’ll be voting democrat for the next hundred years”!
What has the democrat cabals really done for black people ? Little to nothing ! Perpetuate poverty and cash in on the problems it creates not solve anything !
Enhance the true racism of lowered expectations to a point where in many school systems spend more per black student than any others of similar size and graduate students with a 1.6 GPA !
That’s failure not on the part of the student that’s the system failing the student !
The trouble is the student is so pumped up with false self esteem they don’t realize how they were cheated until the cannot read well enough to fill out a job application
That’s when the run for cover under the refuge umbrella of its racism by whites !
White democrats most likely !
White republicans would have you do extra study classes and graduate with a 3.5 GPA and really go somewhere you want to be !
JFK had turned his brother, Robert — the Attorney General — loose on the numerous pro-israel PACs to get them to register under the FARA of 1938 … which, of course, they refused to do. JFK had also outlined a plan to end our involvement in Vietnam by 1965 …
One of the very first of LBJ’s official acts was to take RFK off of that assignment … one of his next acts was to expand the war in Vietnam …
Follow the money …
Johnson was not only a terrible president, but a terrible human being. He had his personal hitman murder his own sister.
WALK AWAY
Just…walk away.