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Show 2. the advantage. that ba ve made some Americana rich, and otbe r s great. a.nd have give" the vast majority a Uie of comfort and iulflUmentll Some may feel that he moved He aet out to expand opportunity to all. too last and too tart moment to act, but all will a.gree he sen-led the b1'evity of the and took advantale of it., I'tl $0 doing, he had to e,ha ge natioftal thinking" one tbing for Franklin Roosevelt, It was in the depth of the depression, to propose and get th.rougb CongrelUJ a vast program 01 social and economic adjustment. or The majority of the people theft were dther jobl •• hopeless or frighte1'teQ,. It was easy to win their support. But Lyndon Johnson ehoae to try to help a miftOrity who were suf£el'i'r'lg at a tim.e wbe1\ the vast majol'Uy was rich and comfortable. and in many way •• beedle •• and untbiT.11dn,. He had to coavince them that there W6.$ tteed •• that ther were problems to 'be met. Then he had to try to grasp th.e mentality of the disadvantaged. a.na to $tudy the large a d alm.ost lorgotteft areas of human blight to n..,d the remedies. Onee he begat1 to see things li' the least .fortunate of Americans them, he tried to make other-. see it the same way. see. That he haa not been wbQUy eucceeeful in a time of plenty I, not too sUrpri.sing. |
