JOHNSONS GREAT SOCIETY - ITS LEGACY IN THE 1990S

The collection of legislative actions proposed and negotiated by Johns on included many different programs. The goals, objectives and impleme ntation strategies were not clearly defined. Over the past thirty year s, the success and/or failure of these programs has been discussed wit h no consensus emerging. The historical record of expenditures both as a percentage of GDP and as a percentage of federal outlays, however, reveals a lasting impact of the ''Great Society'' legislation.