On This Day Archive for January 2008

January 4, 1965: President Lyndon Baines Johnson announces the ‘Great Society’ policy proposals in his State of the Union address

for January 04, 2008

From the January 4, 1965 issue of The Christian Science Monitor
State of the Union
Congress is being asked to remold vast areas of national life.  This is the import of one of the most wide-ranging state of the Union messages ever delivered by a president of the United States.  Seldom, if ever, has a president outlined [...]