Lyndon Johnson took office after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. He finished Kennedy's term and was further elected to hold his own office of the presidency in 1964. Johnson was responsible for designing the Great Society legislation. He took a lot Kennedy's domestic proposals and turned them in to his own. Lyndon Johnson gets a lot of criticism of his foreign policy, but he is generally a favorite due to his domestic policies.
The subject of Lyndon Johnson’s speech was the “Great
Society” and the many other components of it. He wanted to improve America in area such as education, the economy, decrease the unemployment rate, decrease population, and health benefits. The speech helped to fix issues or put in programs for racial discrimination. It also put emphasis on Medicare which was huge back in 1965, and it is still so today. The fight with health care brought back memories for a lot of people and they looked