JOHN F. KENNEDY and LYNDON B. JOHNSON

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JOHN F. KENNEDYand LYNDON B. JOHNSON

• 1960 Election
• Kennedy Foreign Affairs
• Kennedy Domestic Affairs
• Johnson Finished Term

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1960 Election

• Kennedy runs as cold warrior, we must
• Catch up to soviets, witty, handsome
• Nixon more experienced
• TV Debate 70 million, changed politics
• Kennedy wins close election controversy
• New Frontier New Generation, stimulate
• Economy, reform education, civil rights, the
  best and the brightest, strong military

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John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
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Kenney Inauguration 1961
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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Kennedy Foreign Affairs

• Cold War military build up, space race
• World Aid Peace Corps
• Cuba Bay of Pigs fiasco
• Missile Crisis 6 days
• Berlin Wall goes up, I am a Berliner
• Vietnam slow escalation, Diem coup

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Kennedy Khrushchev Vienna
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Kennedy Domestic Policy

• Economic Plan Hellers tax cut plan
• Cautious on Civil Rights Freedom Riders,
• James Meredith and Mississippi University
• Henry Wallace blocks University of Alabama
• King I have a Dream Speech
• Kennedy Supports Civil Rights TV address
• Proposes Civil Rights Bill
• Assassination Nov 22, 1963 Oswald

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Martin Luther King I have a Dream
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Lyndon Johnson Finishes Term

• Johnsons Background
• Passes Kennedys Legislation Civil Rights
• Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965
• War on Poverty
• 1964 Election Beats Goldwater

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LBJ Sworn into Office 11/22/63