Even though, it had dropped to 19% by 1964, when he made a State of the Union address setting out his hopes for the Great Society, it was still embarrassingly high for a country as wealthy as the US.

虽然这个数字在1964年的时候降至19%，但这对于像美国这样富足的国家来说依然高得令人尴尬，也就在这一年，林登·约翰逊在进行国情咨文演讲的时候提出了他的“伟大社会”的期许。

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