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The Traveler… Johnson’s “Great Society”… death of a poet…

Today I traveled back to January 5, 1965 by way of The Springfield Union, Massachusetts (January 5, 1965) [1]. There I found the reporting of President Johnson’s Blog-1-5-2014-T.S.-Eliot-De [2]State-of-the-Union message in which he presented several new programs. “…These are all parts of the Johnson design for a ‘Great Society’, he hopes will develop through decades ahead… the search begins for a way to ‘elevate the quality of our civilization.’…” This was to be for a better health care program for the elderly under the Social Security, to help develop regions suffering from distress and depression, new education programs, and more.

Also in the issue was the report of the death of poet and playwright T. S. Eliot. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948 “for his outstanding pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”. His book of poetry “Old Possum’s Books of Practical Cats” is what the musical “Cats” was based on, which has been the third longest running show in Broadway history.

~The Traveler