Rhetorical Analysis Of Lyndon B Johnson's Speech

At the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, in May 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson represented the United States with a speech at the graduation exercises. “Johnson’s agenda was based on his vision of what he called “the Great Society,” the name by which the agenda became popularly known.” The wealth of our nation should be used to raise the quality and advance American civilization, along with the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
The federal government should use their resources to improve civil rights, declare war on poverty, raise up public education, revise urban communities, and basically accomplish a better life for American civilization. Johnson wanted to add these advancements to his already-passed Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to get closer to his goals. Johnson, who had already been a politician for many years, had the ethos and character for accomplishing and completing projects and tasks. He needed to win the 1964 presidential election before he could go forth with his concepts.
Johnson incorporated affordable health care for everyone, more help for the underprivileged and senior citizens, new and more concentrated crime prevention, and more durable conservation efforts into this speech. This initiative could have been the most traverse change in federal policy since
Every young person should be free to investigate and expand the most distant reaches of conception and imagination. “We are still far from that goal.” Johnson signified that millions of America’s young people have not even finished high school. This is unacceptable to build the Great Society. He concentrated on overcrowded classrooms, lack of qualified and underpaid teachers, and some unqualified teachers that should not be teaching at all. Learning must be an affirmed goal to break the bar on