Great Society

noun

1. the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.

Great Society

1. The name President Lyndon Johnson gave to his aims in domestic policy. The programs of the Great Society had several goals, including clean air and water, expanded educational opportunities, and the lessening of poverty and disease in the United States. ( See War on Poverty .)

Example Sentences

Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, no Democratic president measured up to the Biden-Harris administration’s progressive street cred since LBJ’s Great Society.

From Salon

Caro’s suspicion of the government’s ability to do good is another product of its post-Watergate, post-Vietnam, post–Great Society moment, argues Jacob Anbinder, a historian and fellow at Cornell University working on a book about the origins of the housing affordability crisis.

From Slate

“How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits?” he went on.

From Los Angeles Times

Responding to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the court continued the practice of deferring to Congress in ways that directly affected the mix between government and markets.

From Slate

In her years with the Rep, McIntyre worked with OSF in many capacities, including on co-productions like Robert Schenkkan’s plays about former President Lyndon B. Johnson, “All the Way” and “The Great Society,” and with OSF’s Shares program, which brought theater leaders and casting directors from around the country to Ashland to see its artists at work.

From Seattle Times