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In three pages, this paper agrees with Rev. King’s assertion that LBJ’s desire to end poverty and to provide economic opportunities for all Americans was shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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predecessor, John F. Kennedy. However, LBJ was determined to pick up the ideological torch of his political mentor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, by initiating a sweeping series of domestic
reforms designed to improve social opportunities for everyone regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Taking a page out of FDRs New Deal policy book, Johnsons agenda, dubbed The Great
Society, was an ambitious series of objectives seeking to end poverty by providing equal opportunities for all citizens. Commencing with the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of
1964, and continuing with the Economic Opportunity Act, the Food Stamps program, the Community Action Program, the Elementary and Secondary Education Program, Head Start, and Medicare/Medicaid, the President seemed to
make good on his promise to lead Americans to victory in the War on Poverty. However, Johnsons and his Great Societys undoing would be the Vietnam War, as critics
like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against increased U.S. troop involvement. King astutely observed, "The promises of the Great Society... have been shot down on the battlefields
of Vietnam" (as cited in Peake, 1987, p. 213). King and his civil rights colleagues initially shared collective optimism that President Johnson would actually put into practice what JFK preached
in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their trust by pushing through the Civil Rights Act that Kennedy had initially proposed, but
may have lacked the political might to pass during his presidency. However, by 1965, Johnson had significantly added to Kennedys 10,000 military advisors in Vietnam to show Ho Chi-Minh
and the North Vietnamese that the United States was firmly committed to keep South Vietnam free from Communism. King became disillusioned with "growing evidence that President Johnsons obsession with
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