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Great Society

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1964

Lyndon Baines Johnson22 May 1964

Ann Arbor · Government / Democratic Party Government

Delivers the University of Michigan speech setting out the Great Society programme.

Names involved

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Provenance

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