PREVIEW: From a conversation with Hoover Fellow David Davenport, author of the new work, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, about how LBJ believed he was building on FDR's blueprint to use government to provide equality of opportunity in the economy during the pros
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
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Equality of Opportunity: A Century of Debate Hardcover – by David Davenport (Author), Gordon Lloyd (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Opportunity-Century-David-Davenport/dp/0817925848
1966 LBJ Poverty Tour
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| 0:30.2 | This is John Batcheter speaking with David Davenport of the Hoover Institution about his new book, |
| 0:35.0 | Equality of Opportunity, a Century of Debate. |
| 0:39.0 | We come to the example of FDR and Linden-Baines Johnson and equality. What is to be done? |
| 0:47.4 | Linden-Baines-Johnson's approach was to build on the New Deal, but build on a way that is overwhelmingly the government |
| 0:56.1 | dominating the question of equality and redistribution. |
| 1:00.0 | Here is David to explain. You know, although Johnson did describe himself as a Roosevelt New |
| 1:06.1 | dealer and he was one of Roosevelt's key leaders in the Congress, you can make the case |
| 1:12.3 | that Roosevelt's main accomplishment for the little, for the |
| 1:16.2 | forgotten man was Social Security, which again you can make the argument as |
| 1:21.7 | really more a form of insurance. |
| 1:23.6 | The government is taking your and my money, investing it, and giving it back to us. |
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