The Kennedy

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The Kennedy Johnson Years

• I. Kennedy background overview

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II. Domestic Affairs

• -New Frontier
• --youthful dynamism
• --modest extension of the
• New Deal
• -urban renewal
• -civil rights
• -aid to Appalachia

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-Raise the minimum wage -more federal aid
to -education -federal housing -medical
aid for the elderly
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-Freedom Rides --CORE --interstate
transportation --violence --embarrassment
dilemma for Kennedy --RFK convinces civil
rights activists to focus on voter registration
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-Voter Registration Drives

• --SNCC
• --President in the hot seat
• IV. Fallout Shelter Program
• -buildings designated as civil defense/stocked
  with food and
• water
• -school duck and cover programs
• -make credible the will of the

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American people to risk thermonuclear
war -counter-insurgency --beef up
conventional forces --special forces to fight
in Third World countries -Bay of
Pigs --inherited from Eisenhower --fiasco
--Kennedy unwilling to send in air support
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-Cuban Missile Crisis

• --reaction to Bay of Pigs
• --how missiles detected
• --advice from within the administration
• --Kennedys tactics
• --outcome

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IV. Lyndon Baines Johnson

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-background and style -New Deal
congressman from Texas -post WWII Texas and
Johnsons blending in -wheeling dealing
in the Senate -balancing the Kennedy
ticket -surprise as president
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II. The Great Society

• -race discrimination
• --Civil Rights Act of 1964
• -economic opportunity
• --two purposes
• --Economic Opportunity Act
• -educational opportunity

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