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After a productive year in office, and being re-elected in the 1964 presidential election against Republican Barry Goldwater, LBJ would outline his vision of a greater society at one of his speech in 1964, and his plan to make that happen. The great society would cover areas, like the healthcare insurance, education, environment, and immigration, it was a continuation of former President Kennedy’s domestic agenda along with additional measures, with the hope of ending poverty, racial injustice and opportunities for every child. Immediately, after the outline of the great society, many measures would be passed in just a few years; the amending in Social Security System of medicare to provide basic hospital insurance to most Americans age 65 and older, and medicaid …show more content…
For example, the poverty and mortality rates, which dropped considerably from 22.2% in the 60s, to 12.6 in the 70s, millions more Americans now have healthcare insurances, thanks to the medicare and medicaid amending,and new, successful education programs in place known as Head Start. Along with these visible improvement, most of the Americans also experienced a reshape in areas of voting rights, rights of the accused, and the separation of church and state due to the great society. This reshape was caused by the many rulings on landmark cases by the Warren Court during the 1960s. That is, ruling in Baker v. Carr in 1962 and the Reynolds v. Sims in 1964, that would established the right of federal government to review redistricting, and making sure legislative districts across states are equal in population. As well as the rulings on four landmark cases about the rights and the protection of the accused: to avoid illegal gathered evidence, right to an attorney, right to have the access to a lawyer before being questioned, and the right to being inform of their 5th and 6th