The Great Society represented Lyndon Johnson's attempt to move beyond the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt and provide a variety of social programs to uplift the nation. Out of this effort came the "war on poverty," Medicare,...

The visionary programme of President Lyndon B.Johnson announced in 1964 to move beyond the goals of a rising GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT and FULL EMPLOYMENT to a more moral and spiritual society. In practice, it meant a set of complex federal programmes, in...

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Beat re-generation: ERS brings back late-night Kerouac NO GREAT SOCIETY P.S. 122 150 First Avenue 212-352-3101 JUST JACK In Mexico City Blues, "Chorus 113," Jack Kerouac wrote, "Got up and dressed up and went out & got laid. Then died and got buried...

You hear it a lot about public figures, particularly with an election coming up. Everyone running for office is described by his introducer at every political rally as a "great American." I have never heard anyone say a person is a "good American,"...

War On Terror: Sen. Barack Obama thinks troops should be sent into Pakistan. But he really wants to fight terrorism the same way liberals combat inner-city crime: with social programs financed by U.S. taxpayers.After foolishly promising as president to meet unconditionally with terrorist states, Obama,...

Today is Friday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2008. There are 362 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 4, 1965, President Johnson outlined the goals of his Great Society in his State of the Union Address.On this date:In 1821, the woman...