USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Great Society, political slogan used by U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (served 1963–69) to identify his legislative program of national reform.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term was first coined during a 1964 commencement address by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the University of Michigan and came to represent his domestic agenda. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the War on Poverty-and the Great Society more broadly-laid the foundation for our modern-day safety net, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps; Medicare; Medicaid; Head Start; and expanded Social Security.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Society, a package of programs and legislation aimed at eradicating poverty and improving health care and education, was President Johnson’s chief domestic policy program and one of his permanent legacies.

Detailed explanation-5: -The OEO designated over 1, 000 Community Action Agencies (CAAs) between 1965 and 1968 to coordinate these locally customized antipoverty initiatives. The CAP was the most novel and idealistic part of the War on Poverty and, unsurprisingly, the most controversial.