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The Great Society

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Read the excerpt and answer the question below.
“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 and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”
-President Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement speech at the University of Michigan, 1964
The policies described in the excerpt contributed most directly to debates in the United States about the:
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