The Great Society

"The Great Society" is unveiled at the Democratic National Convention in Honor of Lyndon Baines Johnson's 100th Birthday. Through personal stories, the video provides a visual recording of some of the highlights of the Great Society and examines how these programs changed the landscape of this country during a pivotal moment in American history.

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Education

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• Great Society
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• LBJ
• Lucy Johnson
• `60s
• 1960s
• politics
• government

[MadisonInChains]

We need LBJ!

[teamofrivals1]

Vietnam ruined LBJ's legacy, but I still believe President Johnson was THE most successful leader on the domestic front.

[sayanroy36]

cut down and destroyed by reagan and repubs

[fargonbastedge]

EPIC FAIL

[vernell26]

The black folks on the video should be ashamed of themselves. It wasn't "Great Society", that got you where you are! You got yourself to where you are. Great Society has made things worse for many people because the plan wasn't long term nor good in the first place.

[aaronbfischer]

Great Society and many other government implementations are not about the results. They are about the agenda of getting many powerful interests paid billions and billions more.

Like if you were to cut all these implementations made back then, Wall Street would dive faster and further than any other time on record. Hundreds of industries would crash and create a ripple effect, affecting almost every corner of industrialization here in America.

Cold facts. I don't like it either.

[dannyd1572]

If it wasn't for the war on poverty parts of America would look like the old days of Ethiopa and people would be on tv asking you to adopt a child. If it wasn't for medicare this world would be a mess. Sickness...death...pain..miser­y...all because of no health care. No medicaid? Same thing? The Fair Labeling act made it that food makers put the ingredients of food on their labels. Look how often we use this. Those are just a few things we use and the many things the republicans voted against.

[dannyd1572]

@NordyMark0594 I agree and to think that he inherited Viet Nam is a shame.

[huckstered]

@CWSmith03111982 Utter nonsense. Bush tax cuts robbed the coffers of the u.s. Between

that and the Toxic liar loans that is what ruined the u.s. We were in the black until then.

[CWSmith03111982]

The Great Society planted the seeds for America's destruction. Since its passage the poverty level has skyrocketed, single parent households increased, and the black community has largly become dependant. With the intention of sacraficing liberty for equality and the rights of the individual for the rights of the collective, Great Scociety programs such as Medicare, food stamps and welfare, has placed this nation in trillions of dollars of debt to the effect of making us an Ungreat Society.

[soorayHOMS]

@NordyMark0594 exactly failure in vietnam and excessive rollback rather than detente is what ended the liberal crusade.

[AlecBoy006V2]

@FrsBigeasy The War on Poverty failed because it didn't completely eradicate poverty but Johnson's programs have been the most successful and have done the best job and the closest we have gotten to an all time low and eliminating poverty. Long live this man.