A More Perfect Society

In April 1964, President Johnson visited the home of unemployed Tom Fletcher in Kentucky.

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Lyndon Johnson's vision of a Great Society was cast in his hometown communities of Stonewall and Johnson City, Texas. The Hill Country of his youth, although a place of rural natural beauty and neighborly caring, was also a place of poverty. President Johnson believed that people in such circumstances, given the right tools, could rise to new heights. The domestic programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society were the tools he introduced to assist them.

Johnson determined to eradicate racial inequality and poverty.

He addressed education, health care, consumer protection, transportation, and environmental issues. Funding for the arts provided not just for "man's welfare but the dignity of man's spirit." The number of major proposals totaled more than 200.