Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 29: Great Society

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jun 10 16:46:49 UTC 2007


This one is not really an antedating, but the OED, which has entries for
_New Deal_ and _New Frontier_, does not have one for _Great Society_.  See
Yale Book of Quotations for earliest Lyndon Johnson usages and
cross-references to pre-Johnson usages.

Fred Shapiro


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