1. JFK, LBJ & Nixon 1961-1974 Created by Mr. Johnson

2. Objective 11.06 – Identify political events & the actions and reactions of the government officials and citizens, and assess the social and political consequences.

3. Terms & Concepts Voter apathy New Frontier Peace Corps Great Society HUD Head Start VISTA Medicare National Endowment for the Humanities Robert F. Kennedy 1968 Democratic Convention Watergate scandal Sam Ervin/Senate Watergate Committee Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein John Dean U.S. v. Nixon (1974) 25 th Amendment

4. Kennedy 1961-1963

5. Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 1960 Video of the debate

6. Election of 1960 11.06 -

7. “Camelot”

8. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

9. JFK’s “New Frontier” Civil Rights − Federal marshals (James Meredith & Freedom Riders) − Equal Housing Act Women − Equal Pay Act Peace Corps Apollo Program

10. JFK’s Cold War Policy Latin America - Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Alliance for Progress Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Vietnam – Advisors, withdrawal(?)

11. Assassination Click here for video

12. LBJ Takes the Oath of Office

13. Lee Harvey Oswald US Marine… Soviet Union Attempted assassination of Gen. Edwin Walker Assassination of JFK − Killing of Police Officer Tippit − Killed by Jack Ruby Killed by Jack Ruby

14. Funeral

15. Eternal Flame

16. 25 th Amendment Chain of presidential succession Response to JFK assassination & nuclear threat

17. Johnson 1963-1969

18. 1964 Election

19. LBJ’s “War on Poverty” “Great Society” − Education − Healthcare − Housing − Immigration

20. LBJ’s “Great Society” New Deal-style reforms “Welfare State” Click here for video

21. “The Johnson Treatment”

22. HUD Low income housing projects “Urban renewal”

23. Head Start Pre-K for low- income children

24. Food Stamps

25. VISTA Volunteers in Service to America “Domestic Peace Corps”

26. NEH National Endowment for the Humanities − Art, culture & history − Education & public radio/TV

27. Medicare Health insurance for seniors

28. Medicaid Health care for low income people

29. LBJ & Civil Rights 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act 24 th Amendment Appointed Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court

30. LBJ’s Cold War Policy Vietnam War − “Domino Theory” − 1964 – Tonkin Gulf Resolution (“Blank Check”) − 1965 – Operation Rolling Thunder… Escalation − 1968 – Tet Offensive Support for Israel vs. Arab countries

31. The Costs of Vietnam “If I left the woman I really loved- the Great Society - in order to get involved in that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home… But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser and we would both find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe." -Lyndon B. Johnson

32. 1968

33. Tet Offensive

34. “I Shall Not Seek… …and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

35. LBJ Steps Aside

36. MLK Assassination “I May Not Get There With You” Assassination – April 4, 1968

37. Assassination Riots Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the King assassination

38. Robert F. Kennedy Democratic presidential candidate Called for immediate end to Vietnam War Assassination – June 4, 1968Assassination – June 4, 1968

39. Sirhan RFK assassin Christian Arab from Jordan

40. Democratic Convention

41. Candidates of 1968 Richard Nixon Republican Hubert Humphrey Democrat George Wallace American Independent

42. “Law & Order”

43. Republican “Southern Strategy” “State’s rights”… Split working- class whites away from blacks New “Solid South” is Republican

44. End of New Deal Coalition

45. 1968 Election

46. Nixon 1969-1974

47. Nixon’s Foreign Policy

48. Nixon’s Domestic Policy “New Federalism” Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “War on Drugs” begins 1973 Yom Kippur War −OPEC Embargo −Energy Crisis −“Stagflation” Apollo 11 Moon landing Leak Scandals −Pentagon Papers −COINTELPRO −Watergate

49. EPA

50. OSHA

51. War on Drugs

52. Apollo 11

53. 1973 Yom Kippur War

54. 1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

55. 1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

56. 1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

57. 1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

58. Pentagon Papers Leak

59. COINTELPRO

60. The “Plumbers”

61. 1972 Election

62. Watergate Hotel Burglary The Break-In

63. Patrick Grey Nixon-appointed director of the FBI Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation

64. Woodward & Bernstein

65. John Dean White House counsel “Mastermind of the cover-up” Testifies against Nixon

66. Spiro Agnew Vice President Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

67. Watergate Tapes Click here for video

68. Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

69. “Saturday Night Massacre” Archibald Cox, special prosecutor Elliot Richardson, Attorney General William Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General Fired Resigned Resigned

70. All Alone…

71. U.S. v. Nixon, 1974 Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive privilege”

72. Resignation Nixon resigns

73. Ford’s Pardon Controversial decision Allowed the nation to “move on”

74. Distrust & Voter Apathy

75. Gil Scott-Heron “H2OGate Blues” + lyricslyrics