Undated portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson. (1908-1973), the 36th President of the United States. "A Great Society" for Americans and their fellow men elsewhere was Johnson's vision: education aid, disease fighting, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, fighting poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: National Archives/Newsmakers