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During the early 1960s, President LBJ championed the Great Society, a set of domestic policy initiatives addressing poverty, racial injustice, environmental, education, and urban issues in the United States. Through domestic diplomacy, Johnson, a Democrat, worked with Republicans in Congress to pass legislation that offered new solutions to these national problems.
Through domestic diplomacy, these groups of differing beliefs, which involved the cooperation of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Republican Party of that time, worked towards a common goal and managed to create bills and laws that impacted society. By working with the Republican Party Leader, Dwight D. Eisenhower, they were able to gain support behind this series of legislation and close the gap between different classes.
Lady Bird Johnson attends the ceremony for National Head Start Day, June 30, 1965.
Front row, left to right: Timothy Shriver, Robert Shriver, Danny Kaye, Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs. Lou Maginn (Director of a HeadStart project in East Fairfield, Vermont), Sargent Shriver. (LBJ Presidential Library)