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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.
From 1963 to 1964, Goodwin served as the secretary-general of the International Peace Corps Secretariat. [4] In 1964, he became special assistant to the president in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [4] Goodwin has been credited with naming Johnson's legislative agenda "the Great Society", a term first used by Johnson in a May 1964 speech. [2]
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 Senate president pro tempore Carl Hayden.
President Johnson formally presented his specific goals for the Great Society during a speech at the University of Michigan, May 1964 By early 1964, Johnson had begun to use the name " Great Society " to describe his domestic program. [ 161 ]
[34] By early 1964, Johnson had begun to use the name "Great Society" to describe his domestic program; the term was coined by Richard Goodwin, and drawn from Eric Goldman's observation that the title of Walter Lippman's book The Good Society best captured the totality of president's agenda.
Only several weeks prior, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination in public places and banned employment discrimination, was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
May 22 – President Lyndon Johnson makes a speech at the University of Michigan, introducing the concept of the "Great Society". [17] May 26 – Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the presidential nomination.
In this speech, Johnson stated that the state of the union was dependent on the state of the world and discussed various issues of foreign policy including the Vietnam War. [3] Johnson further discussed the aims of his Great Society initiative and set forth several proposals to advance it, stating [3]