Lyndon. B. Johnson
After being elected president in his own right, in his 1965 inaugural address President Lyndon B. Johnson called for the creation of a “Great Society,” supporting new social programs, including anti-poverty projects. In his “guns and butter” policies, the butter projects at home did better than the gun policies in Vietnam. By the end of his term in office, his growing budget for “Health, Education, and Welfare” represented the greatest social advances since the New Deal.
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by Lyndon b. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson moved quickly to establish himself in the office of the Presidency. Despite his conservative voting record in the Senate, Johnson soon reacquainted himself with his liberal roots. LBJ sponsored the largest reform agenda since Roosevelt's New Deal.
The aftershock of Kennedy's assassination provided a climate for Johnson to complete the unfinished work of JFK's New Frontier. He had eleven months before the election of 1964 to prove to American voters that he deserved a chance to be President in his own right.
The aftershock of Kennedy's assassination provided a climate for Johnson to complete the unfinished work of JFK's New Frontier. He had eleven months before the election of 1964 to prove to American voters that he deserved a chance to be President in his own right.