How did the vietnam war affect johnson’s war on poverty?

Lyndon Johnson took office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy with an ambitious plan for eradicating poverty in the United States.

But the war in Vietnam got in the way.

The War in Vietnam largely derailed Johnson's War on Poverty as the War in Vietnam quickly took away the funding for some of the key programs and overshadowed the accomplishments in the nightly news.

Social legislation slowed down because of the cost of Vietnam.

or

Vietnam cost so much that there was less money for the war on poverty.

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