When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” In 1790, President George Washington delivered the first State ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson became president following the ... Johnson declared “an unconditional war on poverty in America.” As his plans for conducting that war took shape, he began to speak ...

President Lyndon B ... knew when we would work or play." Johnson's staff worked on the genesis of the Great Society here and coined the phrase "War on Poverty." They agonized over the military ...

(See Cover) Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S. in the latter third of the 20th century would almost certainly be the world’s ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon ... there was the poverty program. Johnson admits that his “unconditional war” against ...

Key fact There is ongoing debate about how successful Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’ was. The proportion of people living in poverty in America was reduced from around 17 per cent in 1964 to 11 ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...