{"id":3930,"date":"2017-01-04T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2017-01-04T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:40:34","slug":"lbj-and-the-great-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/lbj-and-the-great-society\/","title":{"rendered":"LBJ and the &#8220;Great Society&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/americas\/lbj.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/americas\/lbj.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"358\" \/>A new teaching unit on LBJ and the Great Society.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the 1964 election, the Democrats held two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress. This gave Johnson the mandate to realize his vision of a \u201cGreat Society\u201d. Emboldened by his election by more votes than any president in history, Johnson prepared to inundate the 89th Congress with a flood of legislative proposals.<br \/>\nJohnson declared a &#8220;war on poverty&#8221; and challenged Americans to build a &#8220;Great Society&#8221; that eliminated the troubles of the poor.<br \/>\nBy 1965, Johnson had devised and signed into law more than 200 pieces of major legislation, including a sizable tax cut, a billion-dollar anti-poverty programme, and a ground-breaking civil rights bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new teaching unit on LBJ and the Great Society. After the 1964 election, the Democrats held two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress. This gave Johnson the mandate to realize his vision of a \u201cGreat Society\u201d. Emboldened by his election by more votes than any president in history, Johnson prepared to inundate the 89th&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/lbj-and-the-great-society\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[701,664,702],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lbj.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-11o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}