"The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use (our) wealth to enrich
and elevate our national life and to advance the quality of our American civilization,
"You imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society
where progress is the servant of our needs or a society where old values and new visions are buried
under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich
society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
-President Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement speech at the University of Michigan, 1964
The policies described in the excerpt contributed most directly to debates in the United States about the: