President Lyndon B. Johnson during commencement exercises at the University of Michigan on May 22, 1964 (Photo via Wikipedia, or LBJ Museum and Library in Austin, Texas)
May 22, 1964 — Lyndon Johnson laid out his vision of a much better America. At the University of Michigan Johnson discussed what a great nation in the 20th and 21st centuries should be, the Great Society speech.
This is the Lyndon Johnson speech Republicans wish had never been given, and which they hope to ignore as much as possible, laying out dreams for a better American they hope to frustrate.
More information from the LBJ Library in Austin:
Audio from President Johnson’s speech at the University of Michigan May 22, 1964, also called “the Great Society speech.” Audio is WHCA_83_2, photo is c387-8-wh64. Both are in the public domain. For more images of this speech, please see http://youtu.be/WqP037Pe5i0, which is B Roll of the same speech.
January 4, 1965 — Lyndon Johnson laid out the legislative plan for the Great Society. Back then, even after crushing defeats in the 1964 elections, Republicans shared Johnson’s and the Democrats’ dreams for a better America.
From calls for international peace to a call for great expansion of federal support of education, to calls for aid for the sick and aged, is there a single area where the GOP agrees today?
How can we get the GOP to dream again?
More:
- In His Final Days, LBJ Agonized Over His Legacy (pbs.org)
- Book Review: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (dinmerican.wordpress.com)
- Revisiting LBJ’s Legacy, 40 Years After His Death (pjmedia.com)
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::: applauding :::
Your response to Mr. Goddard was spot-on. I still maintain LBJ would be a great or near-great had it not been for his militarism.
Though admittedly, my beagle is not a fan.
Jim
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Steve Goddard, striving to be Spiro Agnew’s Mini-me, has a chunk of snark up on the Great Society. My post went into the ozone of his blog — so I’ll put it here, as I lack confidence Goddard will ever get it out of the ozone, nor that Goddard could find ozone if he knew where to look.
I posted:
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