Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ” 1963-1969. LBJ’s Presidency is JFK’s Legacy.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”

LBJ’s Presidency is JFK’s Legacy

New Frontier (via LBJ) Passed tax cuts = econ. Growth by mid-60s “War on Poverty” (championed by Michael Harrington) Gets Economic Opportunity Act Passed (creates OEO= Office of Economic Opportunity) –Job Corps, VISTA, youth jobs, rural and urban development, work-study programs, Head Start Gets Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed –EEOC = no job discrimination –Title VII = no discrimination against sex! (women = )

Escalating Vietnam

1964 Election Daisy ad? ( click on image for commerical)

“Great Society”

Medicare and Medicaid

HUD (Housing and Urban Development)

National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities PBS NPR

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 $ 1 Billion in fed. Funds to benefit poor children Also, next year, Higher Education Act – fed. Scholarships for college

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Immigration Act of 1965 Ended quotas (First major immigration act, and reversed, the 1924 (National Origins Act, which had limmited people from certain countries, dating back to 1890 quotas) 20k in per country “refugees” EFFECT = high volume immigration, more immigrants from Korea, China, Phil., Dom. Rep., Cambodia and Middle East

Dominican Republic

The Rise and Fall of Vietnam and LBJ

Civil Rights Act of 1968 Fair Housing Act – sought to eliminate racial discrimination in the real estate market. trying to end de facto segregation via residential housing patterns (some areas never seemed to have any blacks living there? I wonder why?)

1968 JAN. APRIL JUNE AUGUST MARCH

Great Society? Believed to cut Poverty in 1/3rd Incredible spending by govt. Created continued debate over federal powers expanding (more of the New Deal?) “show down on the battlefields of Vietnam” – MLK, Jr. Great success with Civil Rights Acts Ultimate, irony is the Vietnam War ended up costing LBJ the “Great Society”!