Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was considered one of the most sweeping proposals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Although both of these proposals were intended to make living standards and such better in the United States, they were based on different things. First off, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, while the New Deal was a response to depression. Johnson’s Great Society proposed ways of reducing poverty and bettering America for its future, while FDR’s New Deal was an organized way of proposing a way to pull America out of the depression. The motives were slightly different from the start. Some of the things that Johnson’s Great Society proposed included the following: providing health services to the poor and elderly,
