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LBJ and the Great Society
President Lyndon B. Johnson is today remembered largely for his failure in Vietnam. But before the war sunk his presidency, LBJ compiled a record of accomplishment on the domestic front unmatched since FDR. Medicare, civil and voting rights, clean air and water, Head Start, immigration reform, public broadcasting — fifty years later, these programs are so deeply woven into the fabric of American life that it is difficult to imagine the country without them. LBJ and the Great Society is a window on this transformative moment in U.S. history, and the larger-than-life figure at the center of it. Hosted by Melody Barnes, chief domestic policy advisor to Barack Obama and now co-head of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. The series is a sequel to LBJ's War (also available in this feed), which mined a largely unheard trove of recordings from the White House to tell the story of Johnson's ruinous misadventure in Vietnam.
Episodes: 16
S2 Ep 7 - Post Script
Duration: 53 min
S2 Ep 6 - The Engineer
Duration: 40 min
S2 Ep 5 - Give Us the Ballot
Duration: 37 min
S2 Ep 4 - Medicine Man
Duration: 31 min
S2 Ep 3 - The Bully Pulpit
Duration: 33 min
S2 Ep 2 - Mr. Poverty
Duration: 25 min
S2 Ep 1 - The Great Unveiling
Duration: 26 min
Trailer - Welcome to LBJ and the Great Society
Duration: 3 min
Epilog: “I Shall Not Seek…”
Duration: 51 min
S1 Ep 6 LBJ's War - The Shock of Tet
Duration: 24 min