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Special Message to Congress Proposing a Nationwide War on the ...  March 16, 1964 ... He does not have the skills demanded by a complex society. ... and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty,...
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Home - Charleston County Human Services Commission  On March 16, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson spoke to Congress to submit his ... He said,  Because it is right, because it is wise, and because, for the first time...
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A Retrospective on Johnson's Poverty War | Mises Institute  On March 16, 1964, in a special message to Congress, President Johnson ... his proposal for what he labeled "A Nationwide War On The Sources of Poverty." ... wise, and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty, .... You could say they were really the sole reasons for the War on Poverty in the...
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On This Day in History: March - LBJ Presidential Library | Research  March 1st. On this day in 1968, President Johnson made remarks as he visited the ..... On this day in 1965, President Johnson signed the Appalachia Bill. LBJ said, .... On this day in 1964, President Johnson proposed to Congress a ... and because, for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty, I submit,...
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The war on poverty - did poverty win? | Politics | USA | spiked  Jan 29, 2014 ... ... for the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty ... special message to the 88th Congress of the United States in March 1964. ... Act and the Civil Rights Act would, he argued, 'prove the success of our system', and .... To say the we must change "the economy" is to think that we can modify...
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391 - Address at the Centennial Commencement of Swarthmore ...  Before we took a national resolve to declare unremitting war on poverty at home, ... another generation at Swarthmore, "I cannot admit that a man establishes his right ... we are determined to wage unconditional war against the poverty that keeps ... Citation: Lyndon B. Johnson: "Address at the Centennial Commencement of...
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - Wikipedia  On Wednesday, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he...
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One War Obama Needs to Restart - WorldNews  Sep 19, 2013 ... Five decades ago President Lyndon B. Johnson announced: "This ... Under President Obama, the Unconditional War Against Poverty has actually been a disaster. ... The U.S. could then finally declare another victory-one not realized .... Riding his best approval ratings into the State of the Union Speech in...
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New Frontier - American History USA  The phrase developed into a label for his administration's domestic and foreign programs. We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier - the frontier of the 1960s, ... poverty and to raise America's eyes to the stars through the space program." ... Kennedy's legislative record in 196163 was the best of any President since...
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Twenty Years after Welfare Reform - Library of Law & Liberty  May 2, 2016 ... Even as President Clinton prepared to make it the law of the land, ... Stop the war on the poor. ... And with a presidential signature, 60 years of welfare in America changed. ... with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant. .... either cash or in-kind, directly to individuals (the remainder provide...
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 - Presentation Speech - Nobelprize.org  Not many years have passed since the name Martin Luther King became known ... a racial minority in their struggle for equality that Martin Luther King achieved fame. ... Luther King's name will endure for the way in which he has waged his .... the speech he made to thousands of them on the evening of December 5, 1955.
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Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963 < 1951 ...  Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963 ... It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. ... Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. .... of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!".
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The Clinton Presidency: Timeline of Major Actions - The White House  President Clinton ordered the Federal Government to make it easier for ... Between 1993 and the signing of the Welfare Reform bill in 1996, the ... In 1999, the EITC lifted 4.1 million people out of poverty  nearly double the ... At the President's request, Congress expanded the program in 1994, 1997, and again in 2000.
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the first beatitude - Spurgeon Gems  Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. .... poverty is to be sought for more than richesunder these rags is hid cloth of gold and out ..... It is not a promise as to the future, but a declaration as to the presentnot theirs...
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The Long Civil Rights Movement - To Right These Wrongs: AN ...  Apr 20, 2010 ... In late January 1964, shortly after Lyndon Johnson proposed a war on poverty in his State of the Union address, White House aides identified three .... the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy, the president declared. .... as loyal soldiers in the unconditional war against deprivation and want.
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Still resonating in America: MLK's message of peace ... and sense ...  Jan 16, 2011 ... 10, 1964, in accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace: ... nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. ... compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats...
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The Great Leap Forward Period in China, 1958-1960  Economic development under the People's Republic of China government started with ... Mao was also aware that when Stalin began his five-year plans he ... although perhaps he was not, that the collectivization program in the Soviet ... Nevertheless Mao called for the Chinese peasants to be organized into communes.
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Free at last, free at Last. Thank God almighty, I'm free at last. Well ...  Jan 1, 2008 ... On this day, in 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation  a symbolic gesture that launched a thousand misconceptions...
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History of the United States (196480) - Wikipedia  The history of the United States from 1964 through 1980 includes the climax and victory of the ... Nixon largely continued the New Deal and Great Society programs he ... (OEO) to oversee a variety of community-based antipoverty programs. ... Beginning with the Soviet launch of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957, the United...
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9 things about Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, March on Washington  Aug 28, 2013 ... ... Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963. ... Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd near the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. .... As he spoke, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out to King, "Tell 'em...
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50 Years Later: Poverty and The Other America | Dissent Magazine  When Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United States first ... Instead, the book proved a publishing phenomenon, garnering substantial sales .... As Sundquist noted in a 1969 essay on the origins of the war on poverty, the...