# The Great Society

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Johnson's Great Society expanded the federal role in health, education, immigration, environmental protection, and poverty reduction. Medicare, Medicaid, federal education aid, and community-action programs created durable institutions, while critics disputed their administration, reach, and relationship to local power.

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