Sentences with phrase «declared war on poverty»

He stepped awkwardly into JFK's shoes, oversaw Civil Rights legislation and declared a war on poverty, but is chiefly remembered for digging the nation ever deeper into the quagmire of Vietnam.

Premier Li Keqiang said in his report to parliament on Wednesday that the country would «declare war on pollution» in the same way it declared war on poverty, but critics say stronger rhetoric might not be enough without deeper legal and institutional reform.

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We declared «War on Poverty» — a war that ended in disillusionment and defeWar on Poverty» — a war that ended in disillusionment and defewar that ended in disillusionment and defeat.

There was no school breakfast program when I was in school, and poverty was common enough that the government felt the need to declare war on it, and yet the streets weren't littered with young corpses.

Sitting on a stretch of the Ohio River that divides the North from the South, this city historically has been one of the nation's most racially and economically segregated metropolises, both at the time President Lyndon B. Johnson declared his 1964 War on Poverty and today.

In the early 1960s, before the War on Poverty was declared, I was deeply involved in the local Chicago civil rights movement.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before Congress and the nation and declared an «unconditional» war on poverty in America.

War has been declared on cancer, poverty, drugs and almost every other ill imaginable.