Their name says it all. This student-led organization of the New Left gained notoriety for some of its more radical beliefs. But its 1962 manifesto, the Port Huron Statement, touched on some of the same themes as the Great Society speech. Tom Hayden, who wrote the Port Huron Statement (contrary to claims by Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski), was a University of Michigan grad. In fact, the first national meeting of SDS was on the Michigan campus.

LBJ's speechwriter, Richard Goodwin, was inspired by the Port Huron Statement. He called it a blueprint for Great Society programs on civil rights, poverty, and community involvement in government planning.

SDS eventually became one of the most vocal opponents to LBJ's Vietnam War policy. And the war ended the nation's focus on the Great Society. But for a while in 1964, left-leaning students and a majority of middle-of-the-road Americans were all on the same page.

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