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Why Did Most Great Society Programs Fail to Meet Johnson's

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Why did most Great Society programs fail to meet Johnson's expectations and have limited success at best?


A) The president could not simultaneously sustain the welfare programs of the Great Society and fight a lengthy and expensive war in Vietnam.
B) Too many members in Congress believed that most Great Society programs were too socialistic in nature and refused to pass much of the legislation associated with them.
C) Many welfare recipients covered by the Great Society were reluctant to accept government help, considering it to be charity.
D) The government spent too much money putting down the series of urban riots that were simultaneously taking place while it was trying to fund the Great Society.

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