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The Great Society is the collection of programs that came out of
Lyndon B. Johnson's first (and only) full term as President. Some of these are Medicare, Medicaid, the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It also gave rise to the "War on Poverty."
Speech Relevance
The name 'Great Society' hadn't been coined until roughly 5 months before the broadcast of Reagan's '
A Time For Choosing' speech, so there is little
direct connection between Johnson's designs and Reagan's speech. Indirectly, however, Reagan railed against the ideas of a socialized medical system in both '
A Time For Choosing' and '
Encroaching Control' and against the "War on Poverty" in '
A Time For Choosing'. Reagan also recorded a speech specifically about the dangers of socialized medicine.
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Great Society (Wikipedia)