Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ

• 1963-1969

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LBJs Presidency is JFKs Legacy
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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
  ?)

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Escalating Vietnam
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1964 Election

• Daisy ad?
• (click on image for commerical)

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Great Society
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Medicare and Medicaid
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HUD (Housing and Urban Development)
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National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities

• PBS
• NPR

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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

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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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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

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Dominican Republic
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The Rise and Fall of Vietnam and LBJ
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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?)

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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!