Great Society

English Proper noun Great Society en historical US politics A series of programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty in the United States. en March 12, 1964 w:Lyndon B Johnson Remarks in Athens at Ohio University https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-athens-ohio-university The American Presidency Project [W]ith your desire, we will build the Great Society. It is a Society where no child will go unfed [or] unschooled. Where no man who wants work will fail to find it. Where no citizen will be barred from any door because of his birthplace or his color or his church. Where peace and security is common among neighbors and nations. en 1971 w:Lyndon Johnson The 1964 Campaign w:The Vantage Point https://archive.org/details/vantagepointpers00john/ w:Holt, Reinhart & Winston 0-03-084492-4 74-102146 1067880747 104 https://archive.org/details/vantagepointpers00john/page/104/ We built the campaign strategy around a progressive program, the program that formed the framework of the Great Society. The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary Utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources. en 1992 w:Richard Nixon The Renewal of America Seize the Moment https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/ w:Simon & Schuster 0-671-74343-0 91-37743 440652941 292 https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/page/292/ It has become fashionable, especially in the news media, to measure every effort to deal with America's domestic needs in purely quantitative terms—and specifically to measure it solely by the number of additional federal dollars committed to federal programs that are labeled, however falsely, as cures. This is nonsense. It represents the sort of one-dimensional thinking that gave us the great failure called the Great Society. The Great Society was given a blank check. It bounced. While some of the poor advanced over the last twenty-five years, most who did so succeeded the old-fashioned way—by their own efforts. Most inner-city poor are worse off today than they were before President Johnson launched the Great Society. en 2022 Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980 2 w:Gary Gerstle Oxford University Press The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era New York 978-0-19-751964-6 This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers. Translations series of domestic programs Polish: pl Wielkie Społeczeństwo n See also en big society Further reading