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Great Society was a large-scale social policy reform program run by the U.S. government under President Lyndon B. Johnson, who served from 1963 to 1969. The program was proclaimed in early 1964, a few months after Johnson took office after the murder of his predecessor John F. Kennedy, and continued until the end of his time at the White House in January 1969. The main objectives of the reform program were to fight poverty, strengthen the rights of African Americans and other minorities, and to implement comprehensive reforms in the areas of education and health. Environmental and consumer protection and the expansion of the infrastructure were further considerations.

Great Society programs were strongly geared towards progressivism and can be seen as a continuation of the New Deal of the 1930s under President Roosevelt. The Great Society programs were favored in the 1960s by several factors such as President Johnson's political leadership and the great successes of his Democratic Party in the 1964 elections. During his tenure, around 96 percent of Johnson government bills passed Congress, more than under any other president. Many of the legislative measures and resulting programs have had a significant impact on many areas of life in the United States to this day.