“A stock panic surely was in progress and consternation gripped Wall Street.”
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W.W. Forster, Financial Editor for The Pittsburgh Press, reported that billions of dollars were lost in the hurricane of tumbling prices.
“Pittsburgh welcomed the President and Mrs. Johnson, but the South Side loved him.”
Look at the picturesLBJ in PGH: “I am here to declare war on poverty”
In the years after Johnson declared War on Poverty, poverty rates fell, and America’s poor experienced an increased standard of living.
Check out this fascinating YouTube video of FDR visiting Pittsburgh in 1940.
Look at the picturesPresident Roosevelt visits Pittsburgh in 1939