1. Johnson

2. 1964 Election

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

4. LBJ’s “Great Society” New Deal-style reforms “Welfare State”
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5. “The Johnson Treatment”

6. HUD
Low income housing projects
“Urban renewal”

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

8. Food Stamps

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

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

11. Medicare
Health insurance for seniors

12. Medicaid
Health care for low income people

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 1968

17. Tet Offensive

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

19. LBJ Steps Aside

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

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

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

23. Sirhan Sirhan
RFK assassin
Christian Arab from Jordan

24. Democratic Convention

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

26. “Law & Order”

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

28. End of New Deal Coalition

29. 1968 Election