The Great Society

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The Great Society

After President Kennedy’s death, it was President Lyndon Baines Johnson who took easy victory in the Presidential Election of 1964. He went beyond Kennedy’s New Frontier to create his idea of the Great Society. His society was where “freedom from the wants of the body can help fulfil the needs of spirit”.

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 He believed poverty is the greatest evil upon society so he attempted to end it. He wanted to end racial discrimination in employment and education. In 1964, he described his dream of “The Great Society” to students at the University of Michigan.  He said that it fifty years, “there will be four hundred Americans and in the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double and we will have to build homes and highways and facilities so in the next forty years, we must rebuild the entire Untied States”.

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