But the Great Society did not do nearly as much to improve the economic standing of people as did the extraordinary growth of the economy. When this stopped-in the 1970s-the flaws in LBJ's programs seemed glaring. Hyperbole about the Great Society aroused unrealistic popular expectations about government that later came to haunt American liberalism.
( James T. Patterson )
[ Grand Expectations: The United ]
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