Great Society

Great Society proper noun: a series of programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty in the United States.

Proper noun

Great Society

(US, historical) A series of programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty in the United States.
- [W]ith […] your desire, we will build the Great Society. It is a Society where no child will go unfed [or] unschooled. Where no man who wants work will fail to find it. Where no citizen will be barred from any door because of his birthplace or his color or his church. Where peace and security is...1964 March 12, Lyndon B Johnson, Remarks in Athens at Ohio University, The American Presidency Project
- We built the campaign strategy around a progressive program, the program that formed the framework of the Great Society. The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary Utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we...1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The 1964 Campaign”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104

[W]ith […] your desire, we will build the Great Society.1964 March 12, Lyndon B Johnson, Remarks in Athens at Ohio University, The American Presidency Project:
We built the campaign strategy around a progressive program, the program that formed the framework of the Great Society.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The 1964 Campaign”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
[…] The Great Society was given a blank check.1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 292:
This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers.2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New...

What does Great Society mean?: Great Society means a series of programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty in the United States.
How do you use Great Society in a sentence?: [W]ith […] your desire, we will build the Great Society.
What part of speech is Great Society?: Great Society is a proper noun.

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