The Johnson Years

What were LBJ’s domestic priorities/accomplishments?

What were LBJ’s domestic priorities/accomplishments?

• Used mourning to push Civil Rights

• Declares a war on poverty

• Most gov’t spending since the New Deal

Great Society…

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Head Start

• Job Corps

• Upward Bound

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act: $1 billion

• Voting Rights Act

• Medicare

• Higher Ed. Act: $650 million

• National Endowment for the Arts

What were the crucial issues of the election of 1964?

What were the crucial issues of the election of 1964?

• Vietnam• Goldwater said...

–bomb North Vietnam–get rid of TVA–get rid of Soc. SecurityJohnson won by a landslide