Ideologies / Social Liberal / Lyndon B. Johnson
§ The minds · 1908–1973 · United States · President
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Society
Civil rights and the war on poverty.
Economic−26
SocialistMarket
Governance+28
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Social+32
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The arm-twisting legislative genius whose Great Society — civil rights, Medicare, the war on poverty — was the high-water mark of American social liberalism.
social
Drove landmark civil-rights and voting-rights laws.
economic
Expanded the welfare state — Medicare, Medicaid, anti-poverty programs.
governance
Master legislator wielding federal power for reform.
Notable for
- Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts
- Medicare and Medicaid
- The Great Society
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