When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked ... when we would work or play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." They agonized over ...

April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

When John Gardner became the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he was joining President Lyndon Johnson ... own humble beginnings, Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" as central to ...

Key fact There is ongoing debate about how successful Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’ was. The proportion of people living in poverty in America was reduced from around 17 per cent in 1964 to 11 ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B ... Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his ...