Lyndon
Americannoun
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Both of these programs, which were part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiative in the 1960s, are designed to prevent poverty and unnecessary death in old age.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Presidents from Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson were forced to see that Jim Crow was not just a moral catastrophe but a geopolitical liability.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
Lyndon B. Johnson, the party’s wily leader, used it to effectively kill business-friendly amendments to a federal labor law that the GOP had been pushing.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026
The book includes a 2014 address about Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, that assortment of programs begun in the mid-1960s—Head Start, Medicaid, expanded food stamps and many others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Second of all, Mr. Lyndon was, well, he was Mr. Lyndon.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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