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

The division of rich and poor—both in terms of people and places—has gotten more pronounced in the last 60 years despite Great Society programs, agendas for economic and education opportunity and social safety nets.

From Time

He had already created Medicare and Medicaid as part of his “Great Society” by the time he was Amy Klobuchar’s age.

From Vox

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

From The Daily Beast

In his State of the Union address 50 years ago, LBJ laid out his vision for the Great Society.

From The Daily Beast

He was trying to undo the Great Society, and he basically said that in his memoir.

From The Daily Beast

The chances of even the most “conscious” rap creating a return to the Great Society were nil.

From The Daily Beast

Thursday is the 50th anniversary of the Great Society and the civil rights push.

From The Daily Beast

He has delivered the two heads of our great society into the hands of one of its cast-off branches!

From Project Gutenberg

She was sure that he was devoting himself to Miss Bosworth; every one said that he was becoming a great society man.

From Project Gutenberg

If we are to die here, now, and the great society of the Camorra is to wreck itself upon our death, let it not be in a mistake!

From Project Gutenberg

Fourteenth: a co-ordination of all philanthropic and charity agencies to form one great society with branches in every parish.

From Project Gutenberg

And Mr. Jeffry Tucker bowed in front of me as though I were a great society belle.

From Project Gutenberg