Johnson increased government spending and pushed through tax cuts and thecivil rights billproposed during Kennedy’s term. Johnson’sGreat Societyprogram in 1965 created social programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and public housing. While the economy grew under LBJ with strong businesses and low une...
and injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.” 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 the New Deal of the 1930s....