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What were the main aims of the 'Great Society' and how much did it achieve and where did it fail?
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What were the main aims of the 'Great Society' and how much did it achieve and where did it fail? Lyndon Johnson was primarily interested in carrying out the wishes of the late president, Kennedy, and only once these ideas were completed would Johnson start his plans for the 'Great Society'. In Lyndon Johnson legendary speech he mentioned that he was not simply the president of the middle class and of the rich but of all the citizens of America. The general idea of the 'Great Society' was to improve the lives of the average citizen and to ensure that the underprivileged were given essential but expensive facilities that they could not usually pay for. He wanted to form a sense of 'community' between classes and groups (this included different races) and to bridge the gap between classes in a financial sense so that the lower classes were not left behind...
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