1. Kennedy and Johnson Domestic Policy
AIM: Were the “New Frontier” and “Great Society” logical successors to the “New Deal”?

2. I. The Kennedy Administration
A. Election of 1960: JFK v. Richard Nixon

3. Closest presidential election since 1888
electoral but winning margin 118,574 votes out of 68 million cast
“In Chicago we tell our people, to vote early and vote often.” Mayor Daly

4. B. Inaugural Address
1. “The Torch has been passed to a new generation.”
2. Appoints his “brain trust”
a. Robert McNamara – Defense Secretary
b. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith
c. Robert Kennedy – Attorney General

5. 3. “Camelot”

7. The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
Acceptance Speech as the Democratic presidential nominee (15 July 1960)

8. C. Domestic Agenda “The New Frontier”
1. Manpower and Development and Training Act

9. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963

10. 2. Space Program

11. 3. Medical Retardation and Health Centers Act
Rosemary Kennedy

12. 4. The Peace Corps.

13. 5. Civil Rights
Belatedly grasped the moral and emotional significance of the movement.
1963-pushes for comprehensive civil rights legislation
Blocked by Southern Democrats

14. 6. Assassination of JFK

15. II. Johnson Administration
“I am a Roosevelt New Dealer. As a matter of fact…Kennedy was a little too conservative to suit my taste.”

16. A. The Great Society 1. Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)

17. 24th Amendment-
Bans “poll taxes”
Civil Rights Act (1968)

18. 2. “War on Poverty” Economic Opportunities Act (1964)
Appalachian Development Act (1965

19. Demonstration Cities Act (1966)

20. “Medicare Act” (1965)

21. 3. Education Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
Higher Education Act (1965)

22. 4. Immigration Act (1965)

24. Were the “New Frontier” and “Great Society” logical successors to the “New Deal”?

25. III. Summary
“America a Welfare State”
B. Government too big????