Johnson was towards reform and when he first came to office passed the Civil Rights Bill, fulfilling the promises of John F Kennedy to ban discrimination based on gender and race and also desegregating schools. He came up with a set of programs called the “Great Society”. Amongst these programs were, The Wilderness …show more content…
He was focused on fighting the war on poverty and giving everyone the same rights and equal opportunities. Johnson said, “Freedom is the right to share, share fully and equally, in American society--to vote, to hold a job, to enter a public place, to go to school. It is the right to be treated in every part of our national life as a person equal in dignity and promise to all others.” He thought that government involvement through these programs will help society and get everyone on the same track. While fighting the war on poverty, the pressure of the Vietnam War increased and in his “Peace without Conquest Speech” he states, “We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols.