Johnson's Great Society
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On November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. Five days later, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill increasing temporarily the national debt limit to $315 billion for the remainder of the fiscal year; and two days later, on November 29, he appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to head a commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of his accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Campaigning on the promise of achieving the "Great Society," Johnson and his running mate, Hubert Humphrey were elected President and Vice-President on November 3, 1994, with a record-breaking landslide victory over Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and his running mate, Rep. William E. Miller from New York. It was, at least in an historical sense, the end of Kennedy's "New Frontier" and the beginning of Johnson's "Great Society," which many believed would be an extension of the Kennedy agenda in the hands of a more experienced and pragmatic politician-President.In the 1964 election, Johnson and Humphrey lost five Southern states, many political observers believe, because Johnson had succeeded the previous July in having passed the, Kennedy initiated and too-long debated, civil rights bill. It was an astonishing achievement considering the former Texas senator and majority leader had many loyal supporters within the "southern bloc," who did not believe the President would give this issue the priority, suppo
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ite and speak about issues including: youth; race and the city, slums and the community; the Alliance for Progress; nuclear control; an ill-defined China policy; and, of course, the Vietnam War. Although he would not openly attack the incumbent President, Robert Kennedy saw his brother's presidency as different from that of Johnson's: "But if there was one thing President Kennedy stood for that touched the most profound feelings of people across the world, it was the belief that idealism, high aspirations, and deep convictions are not incompatible with the most practical and efficient of programs
. . . "3 In addressing young Americans, who he believed were his largest constituency, he cautioned them of three dangers: futility, expediency and timidity. These were, it may be said, unquestionably attributes of the then-President, who was reported to have confided to intimates that his future plans were not for months or even weeks but for four days at most.
It is unlikely the same would have been said about JFK and, therein, speculation is warranted as to what JFK might have done. The question will remain, of course, whether Attorney General Robert Kennedy would have prevailed in influencing his brother on the Vietnam issue over J
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