Once upon a time American presidents saw one nation...undivided...believing in beauty and abundance...believing in community and shared opportunity. President Johnson had such a vision, which he led this nation to aspire to. Johnson called it the "Great Society." A year before he signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which gave African-Americans the right to vote, and as such, full citizenship, Johnson gave one of his "Great Society" speeches in 1964. Saying that: The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use [our] wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization. Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society