Lyndon Baines Johnson4 January 1965
Uses the State of the Union address to press Congress for Great Society legislation.
United States · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Uses the State of the Union address to press Congress for Great Society legislation.
Delivers his first State of the Union address.
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