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The Great Society was a series of Domestic initiatives announced in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson at Ann Arbor, Michigan. These programs include:

VISTA[?],
Job Corps,
Upward Bound[?],
Neighborhood Youth Corps[?],
Head Start[?] and
an unconditional war on poverty[?].

The Great Society was never fully funded because of the Vietnam War, which drained available resources. It was partially overturned by President Ronald Reagan's first budget.

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