President Lydon Baines Johnson viewed the United States as a Great Society and he created many different programs in order to achieve the goal of having a Great Society. He began working towards his goal when he gave a speech at the University of Michigan and outlined the legislative program that he had planned in order to end poverty as well as racial discrimination.
President Johnson started with education and passed the Elementary and Secondary School Education Act of 1965 that gave over 1 billion dollars to help public schools. This money was devoted to buying textbooks and helping to fund new libraries for students. Johnson continued helping society and he changed Social Security by creating both Medicare and Medicaid programs. Medicaid brought health insurance to welfare recipients while Medicare provided hospitals with low insurance and cost for people over the age of 65. He then went on to help with housing and built over 240,000 new low cost apartments to help get people off the streets. He created the Department of Housing and Urban Development to continue to help get people into homes. Johnson created the Immigration Act of 1965 to end the immigration quotas that had been going on for people outside of Europe. Johnson was not only involved in helping the people of the United States but also the environment. He helped to create the Water Quality Act of 1965 to preserve the cleanliness of rivers throughout the states. Finally he created the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 to ensure the safety of the food that consumers were buying and eating.
Overall Congress passed 206 of President Johnson's measures in order to help build a "Great Society" in the United States of America. This resulted in the number of poor people in the United States falling from 21% to 11% during Johnson's term
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Nice writing, LBJ did create a Great Society. Use pictures next time though to make it more visual.
ReplyDeleteThis post is very flunet,President Johnson's program was a Great idea for a Great Society and you explained it well.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I really agree with Dane that pictures would improve your article, but the text was very interesting and informative.
ReplyDeleteGood! Lots of facts, but a picture would be kind if nice. Also, you could talk about the effects these measures had as well. I love how you were very thorough, though.
ReplyDeleteThis blog was well thought out and easy to read. Missed a period at the end though :P.
ReplyDeleteThis covers a lot. LBJ was definitely one of the best presidents we've had. He handled crisis pretty well.
ReplyDeleteThis summary was very clear and informative. It's good that you state a lot of facts in here. Good job.
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