The Great Society and The New Deal

Two Presidents trying to bring change to society during their terms as Preisdents. If you look at the changes the reisdent Johnson did during his time when he was leading America you could see that the things he was doing was similar to President Roosevelt.  President Roosevelt was the President during the 1940's and he was brining in jobs for Americans who were suffering from the Great Depression at the time. His main objective during his time as President was to give jobs to every American to help boost the economy again. He wanted to create something big and from that thing he wanted to give small parts of it to each American at the time. President Johnson took office after Kennedy had been assainated and he got to start working on a lot of the things Kennedy did not finish as President. He began pushing for political and educational empowerment for those poor so that they could also get an advantage. He pushed for income measures and public works programs that helped sociacl rehabilation and affirmative action. The Great Scoeity also challenged the segregation laws at the time. Before Johnson took office he knew the issue of segregation could not wait and that the problem must be dealt with. Roosevelt did little to nothing regrading the issue of segregation during the New Deal. His goal was to get America out of an economic crisis and was invovled in a war. Both Johnson and Roosevelt had a lot to do. Roosevelt was just helping American out by giving more jobs and Johnson did more than what Roosevelt had done. Not only did Johnson want to help give the people in Ameircan society who were at a disadvantage a chance he was doing the same thing Roosevelt was doing and helping those people.