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Commentary: LBJ’s Great Society Lives On

June 2, 2019June 1, 2019 Admin

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by Silvio Simonetti Forget Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton as well. And do the same regarding Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. The most consequential American president since the end of World War II was Lyndon Baines Johnson. The man — who possessed a…

Fifty-Five Years into the Great Society, Tennessee Still Plagued with Poverty

January 10, 2019January 9, 2019 Chris Butler

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As of Tuesday, poverty still exists in Tennessee and elsewhere around the nation. But former President Lyndon Johnson promised us this wouldn’t happen. Tuesday was the 55th anniversary of the day Johnson announced government would end poverty as we know it and he would thus begin his Great Society programs,…