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 McCarthyism Alaska & Hawaii

1960 Election (D) John F. Kennedy (R) Richard Nixon Televised Debates  Issues?  Impact? JFK wins…no popular mandate

1960 Election

A New FrontierA New Frontier… New opportunities in technology, science, space, and social relations. Surrounded with young, competent advisors eager to fix America… “Camelot”

New Frontier Accomplishments  Expand Soc Sec  Raise min wage  Expand public housing  24 th 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)

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) Berlin Crisis (Wall)  Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis News footage JFK Speech

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 Zapruder films  Oswald & Ruby acted alone

A Grieving Nation What effect did JFK’s assassination have on the American Dream?

Who was LBJ? Ambitious Focused Experienced

Kennedy’s Legacy Pass tax-cut and civil rights bills 1964 Economic Opportunity Act  VISTA, Job Corps, Head Start

1964 Election (D) LBJ (R) Barry Goldwater LBJ Landslide

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

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!

Impact & Evaluation War on Poverty? Tax Cuts? Growing role fed govt + growing deficit = conservative backlash Vietnam begins to overshadow

Closure Would you define JFK and LBJ as successful presidents or not?