Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ

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Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ

• President 1963-1968
• Political Party Democrat
• Vice President Hubert Humphrey

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• Civil Rights
• Vietnam War
• Great Society

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Domestic Policy

• 1964 Reelection landslide 61 of popular vote
  and 90 of electoral vote against Barry Goldwater
• Medicare hospital insurance and low cost
  medical insurance for people over 65
• Medicaid extended health insurance to welfare
  recipients

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Domestic PolicyWar on Poverty THE GREAT
SOCIETY

• Job Corps Economic Opportunity Act
• VISTA
• Head Start
• Antipoverty measures
• CAP Community Action Programs

• War on Poverty
• Alleviate poverty
• Proposed legislation
• Economic Opportunity Act 1 billion dollars for
  youth programs

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Domestic PolicySimilarities to the New Deal

• Addressed economic and social ills,
• protecting the environment and consumers!
• Increased role of government in peoples lives

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Foreign PolicyVietnam

• Truman and Eisenhower sent aid Kennedy sent
  advisors
• Ho Chi Minh, from North Vietnam- leads a
  independence movement against the French and then
  the US.
• North aids the Viet Cong (guerilla fighters) in
  South Vietnam.

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Foreign PolicyGulf of Tonkin

• North Vietnamese torpedoed boats and attacked an
  American Destroyer
• LBJ asked Congress for all necessary measures
  to repel any armed attack against forces of the
  US and to prevent further aggression LBJ-
  Doesnt ask for a Declaration of War.
• This gave LBJ broad military power.

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Foreign PolicyEscalation

• March 1965 LBJ began sending troops to fight the
  Viet Cong North Vietnamese.
• Tens of thousands more troops sent- he
  reinstitutes the Draft.
• 61 of Americans supported this escalation.