This is a far more ambitious pledge than Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, in 1964, which most American politicians have since regarded as an overreach.
With few exceptions — Franklin D. Roosevelt's "four freedoms" speech, of 1941, for example, or Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, in 1964 — it isn't.
For many, today's 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's declaration of War on Poverty is little to celebrate.
Tom became Washington bureau chief of The New York Times in 1964, a year filled with momentous changes: the declaration of the War on Poverty, the Civil Rights Act and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that escalated the Vietnam War.
Bachmann made her comments on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union Address that famously included his declaration of a "war on poverty in America".
It's not only the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's declaration of the War on Poverty but also the 1,100th consecutive day of the Republican House of Representatives' refusal to vote on a single serious piece of jobs legislation.
King supported President Lyndon B. Johnson's declaration of the War on Poverty in 1964, but, like his friend and ally Walter Reuther, the president of the United Auto Workers, King thought that it did not go nearly far enough.
So 50 years later, how has America executed President Johnson's declaration of an "unconditional war on poverty"?
Many of the 2002 goals for children have been drawn from recent UN declarations aimed at pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty within a generation.
Building on principles laid down in Johannesburg in August at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, the declaration reiterated that economic and social development and the eradication of poverty are the priorities of developing countries.
Despite the early lack of coordination in West Africa, and despite declarations that this outbreak is more difficult to contain because of poverty, recent civil disturbance and war, there is no time for excuses.
