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Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”

Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”. 1963-1969. LBJ’s Presidency is JFK’s Legacy. 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)

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Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”

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  1. Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ” 1963-1969

  2. LBJ’s Presidency is JFK’s Legacy

  3. 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 = )

  4. Escalating Vietnam

  5. 1964 Election • Daisy ad? • (click on image for commerical)

  6. “Great Society”

  7. Medicare and Medicaid

  8. HUD (Housing and Urban Development)

  9. National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities • PBS • NPR

  10. 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

  11. Voting Rights Act of 1965

  12. 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

  13. Dominican Republic

  14. The Rise and Fall of Vietnam and LBJ

  15. 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?)

  16. 1968 JAN. 1 5 2 AUGUST MARCH JUNE 3 4 APRIL

  17. 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”!

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