The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order Part 1

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slope for the crime rate, educational test scores, and drug use. Johnson declared war on poverty. He had trouble developing a scheme to fight the war on poverty. Johnson refused to support New Deal type programs, income distributions, or new taxes. He started a job corps training program. He developed a 137 person task force with personnel of different government agencies to iron out a plan. Johnson called the society the “Great Society.” He said it “demands an end to poverty and racial injustice—to which we are totally committed in our time but that it is just the beginning.” The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect. His plan was to put together the most knowledgeable people and figure out many separate plans to find answers to specific problems. Conservatives found Johnson’s goals to be unrealistic. Liberals thought the goals weren’t up to plan ...

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as to prove troublesome to Johnson and the cause of liberalism, but the trouble came from unpredictable sources—urban unrest in the North instead of the South, and widening fissures in the civil right movement itself.
Lyndon B Johnson wanted to outdo Franklin D Roosevelt in social legislation, and the early indication suggested that he might succeed. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield would shortly declare that “Johnson has outstripped Roosevelt, no doubt about that. He has done more than FDR ever did or ever thought about doing. With the way clear for the passage of Medicare and federal aid for education in the early months of 1965, Johnson seemed well on his way to cementing his ...

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