Editing Great Society (section)

==Speech Relevance ==
The name 'Great Society' hadn't been coined until roughly 5 months before the broadcast of Reagan's '[[A Time For Choosing]]' speech, so there is little ''direct'' connection between Johnson's designs and Reagan's speech.  Indirectly, however, Reagan railed against the ideas of a socialized medical system in both '[[A Time For Choosing]]' and '[[Encroaching Control]]' and against the "War on Poverty" in '[[A Time For Choosing]]'.

Reagan also recorded a speech specifically about the dangers of [Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine|socialized medicine].

In 1966, before he formally announced his joining the race for California governor, Reagan spoke to a rally at the Patton Center in the Bronx borough of New York. This speech is labelled as "[[The Myth of the Great Society]]".