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The New Frontier.Election of 1960.
John F. Kennedy v. Richard M. Nixon.
New kind of campaign: Television played an important role in the
election.
Main issues were national security and the economy.
Just like today!
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Kennedy Wins!
• Kennedy accused the previous administration for a “Missile Gap.”
• Whisper campaign about Kennedy’s religion.
• Kennedy won by 119,000 votes nation wide!
Kennedy’s Legislative Agenda-New Frontier.
• Money to education.
• Health care for elderly.(Medicare.)
• Create Dept. of Urban Affairs.
• Help migrant workers.
• Although he didn’t have much success with this agenda, Johnson will.
Strengthening the Economy.
• Deficit spending on:
• Defense.
• Space.(NASA.)
• Adopted Supply-Side ideas.
• Wanted tax cuts.
• Minimum wage raised.
Warren Court Reforms.
• “One man, one vote.”
• Extending due process:
• Map v. Ohio. Search warrants,
• Gideon v. Wainwright. Right to lawyer.
• Escobedo v. Illinois/ Miranda v. Arizonia. Remain silent, right to a lawyer, Anything they say….
Prayer and Privacy.
• Engel v. Vitale. No school sanctioned prayers.
• Griswold v. Connecticut. Right to birth control.
• Warren Court was an “Activist” court promoting social change.
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JFK and Cold War.
• “Flexible Response.”
• Rely less on Nukes and have a larger regular military.
• Minimize the “nuke’em or nothing” idea.
• Alliance for Progress. 20 billion to Latin America to build economies.
Peace Corp.
• This still exists today.
• Send experts to other poor countries to help them build up their economy and society.
Space Race.
• Soviets ahead of us in space “Firsts.”
• Kennedy committed U.S. to land a man on the moon by end of decade.(1970)
• Now it was a race to moon!
• U.S. won, July of 1969.
• U.S. hasn’t been back since 1973.
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Crises of the Cold War.
• Bay of Pigs. 1961.
• Berlin Wall Erected. 1961.
• Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962.
• CMC brought U.S. closest ever to nuclear war.
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Death of J.F.K.• Shot in Dallas. Nov. 1963.• Nation stunned; people openly wept in public.
Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin, shot by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
Warren Commission determined that Oswald acted alone.
Big questions still remain.
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Great Society. L.B.J.
• Lyndon Johnson becomes President.• War on Poverty:• Economic Opportunity Act. Create jobs.• Neighborhood Youth Corp. Work study for
students.• Job Corp. Help train people for work.• VISTA. Domestic Peace Corp.
Election of 1964.
• Johnson v. Barry Goldwater.• Then Goldwater was considered a
VERY conservative Republican. • Now he’d be a moderate Republican.• “Extremism in the defense of liberty is
NO vise!”• Johnson’s campaign turned him into a
crazy radical. Johnson wins big.
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Great Society After 64 Election.
• Medicare, Medicaid, Child Nutrition Act(School lunch program), Elem. And Sec. Education Act. Higher Education Act.(scholarships, student loans, and work study), Project Head Start, Housing and Urban development Act,
• Water and Air Quality Act, Highway safety Act, and FAIR Packaging and Labeling Act.
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