“On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States. He called it ‘the Great Society’ and laid out the vision of a country that did not confine itself to making money, but rather used its post–World War II prosperity to ‘enrich and elevate our national life.’ That Great Society would demand an end to poverty and racial injustice.”

#Politics #USPolitics #GreatSociety #LBJ

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-22-2026

We are charged with building a #GreatSociety.

It is college graduation season in America. There was a time when a president used that moment to inspire graduates commencing their journey, not to treat the room as a mirror.

#HCR writes about one of those moments. 👇

It is a reminder that #politics can be noble. That #PublicService is not self-service.

The distance between those two instincts tells everything we need to know right now and what must be done

#USPol #LBJ

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-22-2026

"Say my name."

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1968828/say-my-name