Lyndon Bains Johnson Was Born On August 27, 1908 In A Small Town Near Johnson Ci

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Term Paper Title	Lyndon Bains Johnson Was Born On August 27, 1908 In A Small Town Near Johnson Ci
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Lyndon Bains Johnson was born on August 27, 1908 in a small town near Johnson City, Texas.  He went to school at Southwest Texas State Teachers Collage where he learned compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican descent (Kearns 2).  He graduated in 1930.  Four years later he married a woman named Claudia Taylor and together they had two children, Lynda and Lucie.  Johnson became President at the age of 55 when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed.  When he took oath, he had twenty six years of political experience and he was ready to take on the job of the President of the United States of America.  It was at this time that he introduced to the American people the concept of a Great Society (Evans 4).  The Great Society was a government sponsored set of programs that had and still has a distinct effect on our lives today.
In the spring of 1964, he had begun to use the phrase "great society" as a way to describe his goals.  In 40 years, he wanted to rebuild the entire urban United States.  He wanted to prevent an ugly America which was full of polluted air, water and food, disappearing fields and forests, and crowded recreational areas (Wicker 1).  President Johnson wanted to start a society that would soon become a Great Society.  He had a vision of a society that was problem free and he spent most of his life dedicating himself to this goal.  His agenda was to aid education, attack on disease, start a medical care program fight poverty, control and prevent crime, and the push for people’s right to vote (Fitch 1).  He wanted America to be a society that was better than any other (Cayton 778).
One of the many problems that Johnson wanted to fix was poverty.  Kennedy had begun to start a poverty program, but since he was unable to continue it, Johnson had to finish it.  The Economic Opportunity Act was passed in the summer of 1964. This act created Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), which sent volunteers to help people in poor communities. It also set up something called Community Action Program.  This was to give the poor a voice in determining housing, health, and education policies in their own neighborhoods (Cayton 778).
Even though the war on poverty was one of his biggest challenges, the Civil Rights Act was also one of his biggest issues.  The Great Society had its greatest successes in its first years. There were two Acts that helped the Great Society. One of them was the Voting Rights of 1965.  This en...

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