Great Society
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.
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How to use Great Society in a sentence
The division of rich and poor—both in terms of people and places—has gotten more pronounced in the last 60 years despite Great Society programs, agendas for economic and education opportunity and social safety nets.
Why Legacy Wealth Is an Easy Target to Fund Infrastructure | Philip Elliott | August 20, 2021 | TimeHe had already created Medicare and Medicaid as part of his “Great Society” by the time he was Amy Klobuchar’s age.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society | Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn his State of the Union address 50 years ago, LBJ laid out his vision for the Great Society.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society | Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe 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.
How Barack and Michelle Have Normalized Black Prominence | John McWhorter | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThursday 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!
The Double Four | E. Phillips OppenheimShe was sure that he was devoting himself to Miss Bosworth; every one said that he was becoming a Great Society man.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonIf 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!
"Persons Unknown" | Virginia TracyFourteenth: a co-ordination of all philanthropic and charity agencies to form one Great Society with branches in every parish.
London's Underworld | Thomas HolmesAnd Mr. Jeffry Tucker bowed in front of me as though I were a Great Society belle.
At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins | Nell Speed
Cultural definitions for 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.)
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