lyndon johnson is, this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. he had added four words today, here and now. lyndon johnson words and the speech said unfortunately, many americans lived on the outskirts of hope. some because of their poverty and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. our task is to help that one-fifth american families with incomes too small to even meet their basic needs. our chief weapons will be better schools and better health and better homes and better training and better opportunities to help more americans especially the young americans escape from squalor, misery and it s interesting to watch that speech on tape today, as lyndon johnson says those three words, squalor, misery, unemployment and his eyes beyond what he had to speeches narrow, and i wrote, his lips set already in that grim, tough line, tattered and twisted into an expression, and he continued with words back while none