Wednesday, July 30, 2008
'What was Really Great about the Great Society' -- Truth Behind Conservative Myths
By Joseph A. Califano Jr.
The Washington Monthly
Originally published October 1999
If there is a prize for the political scam of the 20th century, it should go to the conservatives for propagating as conventional wisdom that the Great Society programs of the 1960s were a misguided and failed social experiment that wasted taxpayers' money. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Read it all.
--ER
The Washington Monthly
Originally published October 1999
If there is a prize for the political scam of the 20th century, it should go to the conservatives for propagating as conventional wisdom that the Great Society programs of the 1960s were a misguided and failed social experiment that wasted taxpayers' money. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Read it all.
--ER
