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 .)

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

In his State of the Union address 50 years ago, LBJ laid out his vision for the Great Society.

He was trying to undo the Great Society, and he basically said that in his memoir.

The chances of even the most “conscious” rap creating a return to the Great Society were nil.

Thursday is the 50th anniversary of the Great Society and the civil rights push.

He has delivered the two heads of our great society into the hands of one of its cast-off branches!

She was sure that he was devoting himself to Miss Bosworth; every one said that he was becoming a great society man.

If we are to die here, now, and the great society of the Camorra is to wreck itself upon our death, let it not be in a mistake!

Fourteenth: a co-ordination of all philanthropic and charity agencies to form one great society with branches in every parish.

And Mr. Jeffry Tucker bowed in front of me as though I were a great society belle.

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