Authors: Lyndon B. Johnson

1945–1989

Great Society Speech

Summarizes Johnson’s Great Society, its anti-poverty and civil rights goals, legislative politics, and how Vietnam undermined domestic reform efforts.

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1945–1989

Peace Without Conquest

Source: Address at Johns Hopkins University: “Peace Without Conquest,” April 7, 1965, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, Book I (Washington, D.C. :

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