Section: Social Studies

109) The task of economic policy is to create a prosperous America. The unfinished task of prosperous Americans is to build a Great Society. Our accomplishments have been many; these tasks remain unfinished:

• to achieve full employment without inflation;
• to restore external equilibrium and defend the dollar;
• to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of our private and public economies;
• to widen the benefits of prosperity;
• to improve the quality of American life

-Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President Lyndon felt that the most important first step in the war against poverty is

1. full employment
2. a sound dollar
3. private and public economics
4. our natural defense
5. efficiency in government

President Johnson mentioned full employment as the first of America’s unfinished tasks and the first goal that must be achieved in the national interest.