Section: Social Studies

110) The task of economic policy is to create a prosperous America. The unfinished task of prosperous Americans is to build a Great Society. Our accomplishments have been many; these tasks remain unfinished:

• to achieve full employment without inflation;
• to restore external equilibrium and defend the dollar;
• to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of our private and public economies;
• to widen the benefits of prosperity;
• to improve the quality of American life

-Lyndon B. Johnson

The speech implies that America’s prosperity

1. is threatened
2. is at its peak
3. must be retained
4. must be broadened
5. threatened Johnson’s war against poverty

President Johnson listed the widening of the benefits of prosperity as one of the tasks that remained unfinished.