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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The set of programs and policies designed to combat poverty and promote social reform introduced during the 1960s by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • noun The period during which these programs and policies were developed.

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  • In the 1960s, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson oversaw a full-scale war in Vietnam and, simultaneously, an expansive domestic project at home known as the Great Society -- the so-called "Guns and Butter" approach.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • In the 1960s, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson oversaw a full-scale war in Vietnam and, simultaneously, an expansive domestic project at home known as the Great Society -- the so-called "Guns and Butter" approach.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • The most important educational component of the Great Society was the

    Retrieving the Democrats reason for existence 2007

  • A book published at the beginning of 1968 called The Great Society Reader: The Failure of American Liberalism contended that the Great Society and liberalism itself were dying.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-73) 1989

  • I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants.

    Lyndon Baines Johnson: Inaugural Address 1989

  • I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants.

    President Johnson's Inaugural Address, 1965 1965

  • I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants.

    Inaugural Address 1965

  • The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

    The Great Society 1964

  • I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants.

    United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches United States. Presidents.

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