Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Great Society

• War on Poverty
• Civil Rights
• Help for poor
• Head Start
• The Arts

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Warren Court

• Thurgood Marshall
• Most significant in 20th c
• Rights of the accused

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Vietnam

• 1945-1961
• 1961-1964
• 1964-1968
• Gulf of Tonkin
• Anti-war movement

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1968

• What didnt happen?

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Richard M. Nixon
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Vietnam

• Vietnamization
• My lai massacre
• Pentagon Papers
• Cambodia
• Kent State
• 26th Amendment
• 1973
• 1975
• War Powers Act

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Political Issues

• Conservative Backlash
• Southern Strategy
• Silent Majority
• Revenue sharing
• Environment
• Philadelphia Plan
• Oil

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Cold War

• Détente
• Realpolitik
• China 1972
• Moscow 1972
• SALT I

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Watergate

• Break-in DNH
• Obstruction of Justice v. Executive Power
• Resignation 1974

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Imperial Presidency ?

• FDR
• Truman
• Kennedy
• Johnson
• Nixon

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Congress Re-asserts Power

• War Powers Act
• Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act
• Federal Election Campaign Act
• Privacy Act
• End of VITAL CENTER

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Gerald Ford
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What Can I Say ?

• Pardoned Nixon
• Bicentennial
• Stagflation
• Helsinki Conference

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Jimmy Carter

• The Outsider
• Southern Governor

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Cold War

• SALT II
• Afghanistan
• 1980 Moscow
• 1984 Los Angeles

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Foreign Policy

• Humanitarian Diplomacy
• Panama Canal
• Camp David Accords
• Iran Hostage Situation

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Economy

• Stagflation
• Deregulation
• Oil Crisis
• Dept. of Energy
• Three Mile Island

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Domestic Issues

• 1 term
• ERA
• Title IX

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Ronald Reagan
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1980s Political Issues

• Core conservative issues
• New Right
• Moral Majority
• Reaganomics
• Culture War
• Deregulation
• Sandra Day OConnor
• Iran Contra Affair
• AIDS

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Cold War

• Arms Race
• Poland
• SDI
• Evil Empire
• Grenada
• Reagan Doctrine
• Angola
• Gorbachev

• Geneva Summit
• INF Treaty
• Fall of Communism
• Fall of USSR

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George HW Bush
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Political Issues

• Taxes
• Kuwait
• Al Qaeda
• Operation Desert Storm
• Recession

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1990 Election

• Ross Perot
• Economy
• Outsiders
• Republican Party split

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William Jefferson Clinton
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Political Issues

• Gays in Military
• Hillary
• Health Care
• 1994 elections
• NAFTA
• Impeachment
• Serbia
• IRA

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2000 Election

• Al Gore
• George W Bush
• Florida
• Supreme Court

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George W Bush
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Political Issues

• Tax cuts
• September 11, 2001
• Afghanistan War (2001)
• Iraq War (2003)
• Banking crisis

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2004 Election

• John Kerry
• George W Bush
• Ohio

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2008 Election

• John Mc Cain
• Barack Obama
• HOPE

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Political Issues

• Great Recession
• Healthcare Reform Bill
• Gays in Military
• Osama Bin Laden
• Iraq War