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The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country. Johnson first used the phrase in a May 7, 1964, speech at Ohio University. Major new federal programs addressing civil rights, education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched. In scope and sweep, the Great Society was comparable to the 1930s New Deal domestic programs of previous Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of the Great Society initiatives were derived from New Frontier proposals which had stalled during the Kennedy administration. Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion and the Democratic landslide victory in the 1964 elections, which brought many new liberals into Congress and made the House of Representatives of 1965 the most liberal since 1938. Wikipedia