HIST-UA 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lyndon B. Johnson, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lunch Counter
26 Aug 2016
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The great society was a reform program that was made by president lyndon johnson. It was to stop racial inequality and poverty. In general, the great society helped shape up johnson support. He got the support from congress as what made him into a majority popular leader. He tried to get the every person to support him and he almost did. As a congressman, johnson was effective because the president would seem to follow johnson"s ideas. Johnson got that much support when he was in power. The great society not only was a reform program and a way to help out the new frontier people, it was a way to get people to support lyndon johnson: medicare. Medicare was the reform program that helped the elderly people get government aid for hospital or like medical fees. In general, medicare was important because it stopped the conflict that was going on with medicine.
