Sentences with phrase «failed war on poverty»
Lyndon Johnson's overly ambitious Great Society program, especially its failed War on Poverty, did much to diminish the faith in government that FDR's New Deal had generated.
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The common explanation is that the Egyptian people, rich and poor alike, turned to God after everything else failed: the mess of the government's socialist experiment in the 1960s; the downfall of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab nationalism; the military debacle of the 1967 war with Israel; poverty; inept government — the list goes on.