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)– 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 = )

Escalating Vietnam

1964 Election

• Daisy ad?

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“Great Society”

Medicare and Medicaid

HUD (Housing and Urban Development)

National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities

• PBS

• NPR

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

Voting Rights Act of 1965

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

Dominican Republic

The Rise and Fall of Vietnam and LBJ

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?)

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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”!