the kennedy & johnson years
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The Kennedy & Johnson Years. Post-War Presidents. Truman’s “Fair Deal” Reconversion/Readjustment Eisenhower’s “Modern Republicanism” $ Conservative/Social Liberal Limit fed power. Review. What were some of the major events from the 1950s?. Rock n Roll Desegregation Sputnik & NASA - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Kennedy & Johnson Years
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Post-War Presidents
Truman’s “Fair Deal” Reconversion/Readjustment
Eisenhower’s “Modern Republicanism”
$ Conservative/Social Liberal Limit fed power
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Review
What were some of the major events from the 1950s?
Rock n Roll Desegregation Sputnik & NASA McCarthyism
Alaska & Hawaii
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1960 Election
(D) John F. Kennedy (R) Richard Nixon
Televised Debates Issues? Impact?
JFK wins…no popular mandate
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1960 Election
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A New Frontier…
New opportunities in technology, science, space, and social relations.
Surrounded with young, competent advisors eager to fix America…
“Camelot”
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New Frontier
Accomplishments Expand Soc Sec Raise min wage Expand public housing 24th Amend (poll tax) Space Program
Opposition Medical care for the
elderly Fed aid to education Civil Rights legislation Tax cuts (some, not all
he wanted)
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Foreign Affairs – A Flexible Response Goals
Reduce risk of nuclear war
Encourage nations to align with US
Accomplishments Peace Corps Alliance for Progress Limited Test Ban Treaty
Failures Bay of Pigs Berlin Crisis (Wall) Cuban Missile Crisis
News footage JFK Speech
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Tragedy Strikes
Nov 22, 1963 Dallas, TX Assassinated (by Lee
Harvey Oswald…who’s assassinated by Jack Ruby)
VP LBJ sworn in Warren Commission
Zapruder films Oswald & Ruby acted
alone
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A Grieving Nation
What effect did JFK’s assassination have on the American Dream?
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Who was LBJ?
Ambitious Focused Experienced
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Kennedy’s Legacy
Pass tax-cut and civil rights bills
1964 Economic Opportunity Act VISTA, Job Corps, Head
Start
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1964 Election
(D) LBJ (R) Barry Goldwater
LBJ Landslide
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Great Society- End poverty and racial injustice, promote higher quality of life for all. Poverty
EOA Medicare (old) Medicaid (poor)
Environment
Consumer
Education Elem/Sec Educ Act Higher Educ Act
Discrimination Civil Rights Act 64 Voting Rights Act 65
Urban Areas Omnibus Housing Dept HUD Gun & Crime Control
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Warren Court Supports Reforms
Reapportionment- Redraw election districts based on population = equal voice.
Expand Rights of Accused Mapp- exclusionary
evidence Gideon- free counsel Escobedo- counsel at ? Miranda- read rights
Limit gov’t power, equal protection under law!
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Impact & Evaluation
War on Poverty? Tax Cuts?
Growing role fed govt + growing deficit = conservative backlash
Vietnam begins to overshadow
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Closure
Would you define JFK and LBJ as successful presidents or not?