The Great Society/New Deal IV (1964-68) begins: Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Lyndon Johnson, in a commencement address at the University of michigan, outlines his plan for the most ambitious increase in social welfare spending in history:

       [I]n your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

       The Great Society … demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.  But that is just the beginning.

       The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.  It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness.  It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.

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       But I do promise this: We are going to assemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for America. I intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of White House conferences and meetings — on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges. And from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the Great Society.

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       So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?

       Will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?

       Will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace — as neighbors and not as mortal enemies?

       Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?

       [restored 10/9/2022]