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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Poverty Bill (also known as the Economic Opportunity Act) while press and supporters of the bill looked on, August 20, 1964.. The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964.
The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was passed as a part of LBJ's War on Poverty. Encompassing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was created "to eliminate the paradox of poverty on the midst of plenty in this nation by opening…. To everyone… the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to ...
It was Johnson's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy in November 1963. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker John W. McCormack , accompanied by President pro tempore Carl Hayden , in his capacity as the ...
The 1964 presidential campaign of Lyndon B. Johnson was a successful campaign for Johnson and his running mate Hubert Humphrey for their election as president and vice president of the United States. They defeated Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and vice presidential nominee William Miller.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964. The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country.
The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973, [369] and the United States Department of Education headquarters was named after Johnson in 2007. [370] The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin was named in his honor, as is the Lyndon B. Johnson National ...
U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson (1908 - 1973) greets supporters during a rally, Wilmington, Del., 1964. Credit - Jack Tinney—Getty Images. V ice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has been on ...
Democratic Party (United States) 1964 Democratic Party ticket: Lyndon B. Johnson Hubert Humphrey; for President: for Vice President: 36th President of the United States (1963–1969) U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1949–1964) Campaign