President Johnson's war on poverty : rhetoric and history /
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In January 1964, in his first State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson announced a declaration of "unconditional war" on poverty. By the end of the year the Economic Opportunity Act became law. The War on Poverty illustrates the...
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University, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©1986.
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Table des matières:
- Chronology
- Rhetoric and public policy: the force of symbolic choice
- Inception: the war is declared
- Rhetorical crisis: the transformation of the military objective
- Rhetorical crisis: the transformation of the enemy
- Rhetorical crisis: the transformation of weapons and tactics
- Consummation: the stalemated war
- The impasse of the liberal argument.