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  1. www.britannica.com › topic › War-on-PovertyWar on Poverty | History, Speech, Significance, & Facts

    War on Poverty, expansive social welfare legislation introduced in the 1960s by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and intended to help end poverty in the United States. It was part of a larger legislative program, the Great Society, that Johnson hoped would make the United States more equitable and just.

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  3. www.presidency.ucsb.edu › documents › specialSpecial Message to the Congress Proposing a Nationwide War on ...

    The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others. It is a struggle to give people a chance. It is an effort to allow them to develop and use their capacities, as we have been allowed to develop and use ours, so that they can share, as others share, in the promise of this nation.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › War_on_povertyWar on poverty - Wikipedia

    The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech led the United States Congress to pass the ...

  5. americanarchive.org › primary_source_sets › war-onLyndon Johnson Declares an “Unconditional War on Poverty” (1964)

    In this excerpt, Johnson makes his famous declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty” and lays out his broad vision for how the government would fight that war. State of the Union, 1964-01-08, L.B. Johnson | WRVR | January 8, 1964 This clip and associated transcript appear from 11:03 - 16:37 in the full record. View Full Record

  6. www.npr.org › lyndon-johnsons-war-on-povertyLyndon Johnson's War on Poverty : NPR

    Jan 8, 2004 · Wally McNamee/Corbis. Forty years ago today in his first State of the Union speech, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War On Poverty." Johnson's declaration came just weeks after succeeding ...

  7. www.npr.org › 2014/01/08 › 260572389For LBJ, The War On Poverty Was Personal : NPR

    Jan 8, 2014 · For LBJ, The War On Poverty Was Personal. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Jan. 8, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson stood in the ...

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  9. prde.upress.virginia.edu › content › WarOnPoverty2Lyndon B. Johnson and the War on Poverty - University of Virginia

    In a late afternoon phone call on 29 July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson implored a fellow Texan, House Appropriations Committee chair George H. Mahon [D-Texas], to help pass the economic opportunity bill that would launch Johnson’s War on Poverty: “You help me, because this is one I just can’t lose.

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