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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 8, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson initiated the war on poverty with the U.S. rate around 19%. Today, the rate is around 13%. These numbers do not include the millions who are employed ...

The front page of the Deseret News on Jan. 8, 1964, as President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to Congress, declaring a "War on Poverty." A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret ...

The first was the gigantic expansion of the Lyndon B. Johnson “war on poverty” welfare state in the 1970s with prices nearly doubling. Second was the post-COVID-19 spending blitz in the last y ...

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 ...

The sultry star of Batman and The Emperor's New Groove was given away by her mother and never knew her father.

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 ...

(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 ...