The Great Society of President Johnson

In May 1964, speaking at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon B. Johnson maintained, ôIn your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Societyö (Johnson 1964, 704). JohnsonÆs ôGreat Societyö was described as one wherein men are ômore concerned with the quality of their lives than the quantity of their goodsö (Schultz 1999, 4). However, the gains proposed by such a policy initiative came at the expense of the middle-class. The U.S. Constitution guarantees certain inalienable rights, among them the right to property. By devising such an initiative, JohnsonÆs policy deprived others of their hard earned goods to redistribute them to the poor, to refurbish inner cities, and for education initiatives.

JohnsonÆs ôGreat Societyö had three main themes:

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