Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Robert Woodson and Michael Lind talked about President Lyndon Johnson’s goal of promoting equality and ending poverty with the Civil Rights Act ...

Although President Lyndon Johnson, seen here signing the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, is often identified with the War on Poverty, many of its programs were bipartisan initiatives.

LBJ sought to use the presidency to abolish economic inequality. In March 1964, in a special message to Congress, he introduced the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Economic Opportunity Act.

Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty. Though some are tempted to look back with nostalgia on that rallying cry and the resulting Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 — and even to treat it as ...

2014-08-17T07:51:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/90e/20140817080347001_hd.jpgRobert Woodson and Michael Lind talked about President Lyndon Johnson’s goal of ...