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Wouldn't the Great Society include the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Typos 23:23, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
This statement does not seem neutral: "Another Johnson success was the establishment of the Department of Housing and Urban Development." I think it would be fair to say that the creation of HUD and its subsequent policies are not universally or even largely seen as an unqualified success. Even if they are I am not sure that this is a NPOV way to phrase this information. I am going to change this sentence to a more neutral statement about the creation of HUD.
In the Civil Rights section, a sentence about the Civil Rights Act of 1968 states that it "extended constitutional protections to Indians on reservations." Isn't the correct term for 'Indians' 'Native Americans'? It seems somehow politically incorrect/offensive that they should be referred to as such. 67.162.149.163 19:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The issue's not so clearcut -- as the article on Native American name controversy points out, many Indians prefer the term "Indian." Indians were closely involved in the creation and the naming of the U. S. National Museum of the American Indian. OtherDave (talk) 21:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
More than a ((Presidential Domestic Programs)), might a ((Great Society)) or ((Great Society Programs)) template be useful? It would start with Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and etc. ? -- Sholom 12:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I find this paragraph troubling for several reasons. I guess I'd like an understanding of the allegations of Alan Brinkley and Charles Murray rather than two quotes using language like "modest achievement" or "being ineffective" & "creating an underclass" lacking any supporting evidence. I'd suggest that this country already had and will always have an "underclass", though I wouldn't characterise any group of people as lazy because it's presumptuous, callous and judgemental. If the War on Poverty were a failure after nearly halving the poverty rate in a brief time, why did the rate increase afterwards never again matching the 1973 rate of 11.1? As they are, these sentences seem more like a pot shot than evidence that the war on poverty failed to improve life for millions of Americans.
Can we find the official poverty rate for blacks in 1960? One sentence says 55%, the next 47%. Both seem stretched to attempt to prove their points. The Census Bureau's website says 55% in 1959 without a figure for 1960. The next figure is 42% in 1966. According to the Census Bureau, the black poverty rate in the US did not fall to 27% until 1997. It was 35% in 1968. While the contributor sites a source, it appears to be inaccurate. The other contributor's source can't be disproven by the Census Bureau because their figures don't go back that far, but I wonder if they're credible.US Census Bureau Historical Poverty Tables
If the War on Poverty was responsible for the destruction of the black family, was it also responsible for gay liberation, the Rolling Stones, race riots and everything else that coincided with that era? This might be an interesting point for analysis. But once again, as it is, the sentence seems like a pot shot rather than a contribution towards a greater understanding of Great Society and those who opposed it--if those opposing it should have a view here as long as we're as cautious as we should be in the presentation of Great Society.
I don't think that this paragraph is helpful or objective. However, I'll disclose that I'm tremendously fond of LBJ and his domestic policies. It may be my bias that prevents something that is objective from seeming objective. In discussing the legacy, I'd like to see an analysis of where we'd be today without Great Society. I suspect each of us benefits a great deal, both culturally and economically, today and I'll endeavour to find credible, objective substantiation soon to bring that point here.
mp2dtw 05:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a minor point, but the phrase about VISTA (in the War on Poverty section) seems a little misleading to me. To say that VISTA "sent middle-class young people on 'missions' into poor neighborhoods" seems to imply a somewhat condescending "missionary" atittude, as if the VISTAs see themselves as more advanced or more civilized than the poor whom they served. But this missionary atttitude was pretty actively discouraged when i was a VISTA (admitedly not when the program was founded, but in the early nineties.). At that time, The majority of VISTAs were from the communities they served, and they were not necessarily middle class. Even the VISTAs who did come from outside the community were expected to live and work as part of the community and to help the community become self-sufficient, not dependent on do-gooders. I understood that this was always part of the the philosophy of the program, but perhaps I was wrong; does anyone know?Hickoryhillster 04:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
An anonymous user (who might be a sock puppet for a banned user JerryJones) recently argued for the immigration act of 1965 to be included in Culture and Arts section rather than under Civil Rights. In the broadest sense, all Great Society programs were designed to change "culture". In my opinion the Culture and Arts section should reflect the intent of the Great Society legislative agenda, so the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts, national museums, and public television are the only initiatives that should be included.
Several sources argue for the logic of including the immigration act as in the list of civil rights acts. For example, historian Taylor Branch in the third volume of his definitive history of the civil rights movement, At Canaan's Edge, writes that, although neither politicians nor the press grasped the Immigration Act’s significance at the time, it "rightfully joined the two great civil rights laws as a third enduring pillar of the freedom movement." Furthermore, the publication Federal Civil Rights Statutes: A Primer (September 9, 2005 http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/53772.pdf) compiled by the Congressional Research Service lists the immigration act in its list of federal civil rights statues.
Several analyses of immigration law suggest that the 1965 act "was mainly seen as an extension of the civil rights movement". (e.g. http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/back395.html). Leuliett 16:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Alas, part of the article is copies word for word from Encarta's article on LBJ. It's online: See [1] --are other parts copies from other sources word for word??
for example: Encarta: Almost immediately 14 separate task forces began thoroughly studying nearly all major aspects of United States society, each working without publicity while it did its job. Presidential assistants Bill Moyers and Richard N. Goodwin helped create these groups, drawing on the expertise of other government officials in selecting the members. During June the task forces were recruited. The average membership was nine, and particular care was taken to include governmental experts, as well as academicians. Each task force was assigned a particular subject: cooperation among government agencies in dealing with financial questions; making the federal government more efficient and less costly; developing policies to prevent economic recessions; developing policies on economic issues related to other countries; and determining how best to help individuals maintain their income. It is notable that only one of these task forces dealt with foreign policy. Many of Kennedy’s committees had dealt with foreign affairs, and he had encountered political problems when their proposals were leaked to the press."
Wiki: Almost immediately 14 separate task forces began thoroughly studying nearly all major aspects of United States society, each working without publicity while it did its job. Presidential assistants Bill Moyers and Richard N. Goodwin helped create these groups, drawing on the expertise of other government officials in selecting the members. During June the task forces were recruited. The average membership was nine, and particular care was taken to include governmental experts, as well as academicians. Each task force was assigned a particular subject: cooperation among government agencies in dealing with financial questions; making the federal government more efficient and less costly; developing policies to prevent economic recessions; developing policies on economic issues related to other countries; and determining how best to help individuals maintain their income. It is notable that only one of these task forces dealt with foreign policy. Many of Kennedy’s committees had dealt with foreign affairs, and he had encountered political problems when their proposals were leaked to the press. I marked the copied passages and credited Encarta. Rjensen 04:48, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I was just in a graduate seminar in which we discussed John Dewey and Walter Lippmann. Both authors invoked the term "Great Society" (in caps), and so we wikified it to figure out why proto-communications scholars were throwing this term around in the opening decades of the 20th century. No dice. Nothing. Nada. Googled the term and came up with a few book references (Dewey and Lippmann, Schudson, etc.). Still, I have enough evidence to suspect that "Great Society", as a term, goes back WAY further than Johnson-- maybe a century or more. I'd like to see a disambiguation page so that maybe we can tease out the genesis and history of the term, and its significance in the development of American political and sociological thought.--Markwalters79 01:42, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
---One thought in response: the term may come from Adam Smith's description of the legitimate functions of government in Wealth of Nations. Here's the quote: “First, the duty of protecting the society from violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it [note that this means that, for Smith, an idea of “justice” is integral to political ethics], or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice; and, thirdly, the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain; because the profit would never repay the expense to any individual or small number of individuals, though it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.” (from Book 4, Ch. 9. A similar use occurs in Book 5, Ch. 1, and the phrase also appears elsewhere in the book). Note that Smith probably intends "great" to simply mean "large in population." But Smith's phrase directly links notion of "the great society" to large-scale public works that can only be accomplished through government intervention-- the very core of Johnson's ideology. 66.215.152.212 (talk) 19:58, 29 March 2010 (UTC)Duff Morton, duffmorton@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.215.152.212 (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
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What do others here think?
Black Fathers Matter (talk) 20:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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National Data Bank redirects to this same page but consists of nothing more than mentioning the name and a book criticizing it. Entries about the book and author also lack a description of the initiative or whether it was ever implemented. There is a government agency with a similar name but it was created in 1986. Colonial Computer 13:55, 22 May 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 22yearswothanks (talk • contribs)
The entire section on Privacy is presented as a policy item for the Johnson’s Great Society. It’s actually a criticism and should be moved to a section on critique or under the consumer protections paragraph. If the National Data Bank was a key component it should be described with a more neutral tone. This is the only paragraph that mentions it. Nwhysel (talk) 16:34, 26 January 2023 (UTC)