Great Society | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Great Society


00:01:34 1 Economic and social conditions
00:03:09 2 Johnson's speeches in Ohio and Michigan
00:04:14 3 Presidential task forces
00:05:23 4 The election of 1964
00:06:03 5 The two sessions of the Eighty-Ninth Congress
00:07:12 6 The major policy areas
00:07:22 6.1 Civil rights
00:08:41 6.2 The "War On Poverty"
00:10:23 6.2.1 The programs
00:11:59 6.3 Education
00:14:59 6.4 Health
00:15:07 6.4.1 Medicare
00:15:43 6.4.2 Medicaid
00:16:20 6.5 Welfare
00:19:44 6.6 The arts and cultural institutions
00:19:54 6.6.1 National endowments for the arts and the humanities
00:21:47 6.6.2 Public broadcasting
00:23:12 6.6.3 Cultural centers
00:24:38 6.7 Transportation
00:25:49 6.8 Consumer protection
00:27:41 6.9 The environment
00:29:42 6.10 Housing
00:30:40 6.11 Rural development
00:33:35 6.12 Labor
00:34:16 6.13 Conservative opposition
00:35:44 7 Legacy
00:37:25 8 See also



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The Great Society  was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65.  The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. President Johnson first used the term "Great Society" during a speech at Ohio University, then unveiled the program in greater detail at an appearance at University of Michigan.
New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched during this period.  The program and its initiatives were subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s and years following. The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Some Great Society proposals were stalled initiatives from John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion, coupled with the Democratic landslide in the 1964 election that brought in many new liberals to Congress, making the House of Representatives in 1965 the most liberal House since 1938.Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and federal education funding, continue to the present. The Great Society's programs expanded under the administrations of Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.