Johnson won reelection in a landslide in 1964 over conservative leader Barry Goldwater, and proceeded to push through a massive expansion of federal programs known as the "Welfare State." This included Medicare, food stamps, and federal spending on education. Johnson also supported the Voting Rights...
徐中川 美国总统演讲名篇赏析 Lecture 11 Lyndon B. Johnson We Shall Overcome.ppt,We Shall Overcome Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation Lyndon Baines Johnson 15 March, 1965, Washington, D.C. Contents Warm-up questions Background inf
In May, 1964, Johnson called for a nationwide war against poverty and outlined a vast program of economic and social welfare legislation designed to create what he termed the Great Society. Elected (Nov., 1964) for a full term in a landslide over Senator Barry Goldwater, he pushed hard for...
After three years of fighting, in the year 3597, or about 165 B.C.E., the Maccabees victoriously reclaimed the temple on Jerusalem's Mount Moriah. Next they prepared the temple for rededication -- in Hebrew, Hanukkah means "dedication." In the temple they found only enough purified oil to...
, Robert Caro admired LBJ’s liberalism (“civil rights,” the welfare state, which Johnson called “The Great Society,” and in general a big federal big government) but was on the other hand appalled by the man’s crass ego, physical cowardice as both a student...
Of course, people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never taught to read or write, if their bodies are stunted from hunger, if their sickness goes untended, if their life is spent in hopeless poverty just drawing a welfare check. So we want to open the gates to opportunity. Bu...
Johnson saw these measures as building on and completing the New Deal vision of Franklin D. Roosevelt; with their adoption the United States joined the ranks of the welfare states of western Europe and Scandinavia. However, the effect of these undertakings was soon vitiated by increasing American...
” The Great Society program, beginning with the Civil Rights Act and continuing with other important measures passed during Johnson’s second term, was the most impressive body of social legislation since theNew Dealof the 1930s. Itencompassedmeasures designed to fight the “war on poverty,” ...
In 1965 Johnson became president in his own right, having won the 1964 presidential election by what was then the greatest landslide in the nation's history. He continued to place a strong emphasis on social welfare and reform through his Great Society program. ...