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J.F.K’s New Frontier to L.B.J’s
Great Society
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• 35th President of the U.S., 1961-63• Served in WWII• Senator from Massachusetts• Popular president
• 35th President of the U.S., 1961-63• Served in WWII• Senator from Massachusetts• Popular president
ACHIEVEMENTS / EVENTS• New Frontier
• Space race---put a man on the moon• Berlin Wall built
• Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp• Cuban Missile Crisis
• U.S. involvement in Vietnam• Negotiates first nuclear test ban treaty with Soviets
• Assassinated, Nov. 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald?
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Kennedy's New Frontier Domestic Program
• Federal funding for education• Medical care for the elderly• Government intervention to halt the
recession with tax cuts. • End to racial discrimination. • Established
• Alliance for Peace and Peace Corps to help Third World countries• President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to end racial discrimination in hiring
of govt employees.
New Frontier impossible to complete• Due to conservative Congress. • Disappointed many civil rights activists = feared splitting Democratic Party.• New Frontier ideas led to President Johnson's "Great Society"
Kennedy's New Frontier Domestic Program
• Federal funding for education• Medical care for the elderly• Government intervention to halt the
recession with tax cuts. • End to racial discrimination. • Established
• Alliance for Peace and Peace Corps to help Third World countries• President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to end racial discrimination in hiring
of govt employees.
New Frontier impossible to complete• Due to conservative Congress. • Disappointed many civil rights activists = feared splitting Democratic Party.• New Frontier ideas led to President Johnson's "Great Society"
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Kennedy’s Campaign for Medicare
Basis of Medicare Men 65 years & older & women 62
years & older can receive assistance
Also the disabled can receive help Working people should start
contributing now Inspired by & eventually tied to
the Social Security system
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lbj sworn in
November 22, 1963
Dallas, TX
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Major Events• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Act, 1964 • Voting Rights Act, 1965
• War On Poverty = "Great Society" • Anti-Poverty Act, 1964 • Education reform
• Cold War = US involvement in Vietnam
Major Events• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Act, 1964 • Voting Rights Act, 1965
• War On Poverty = "Great Society" • Anti-Poverty Act, 1964 • Education reform
• Cold War = US involvement in Vietnam
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LBJ’s State of the Union Address LBJ wants to cut the deficit in
½ Wants to reduce the size of
the gov’t while maintaining the size of the military
LBJ pledges to assist the less fortunate“THE GREAT SOCIETY” Declares war on poverty Medicare/Medicad Assistance to the inner cities
& rural areas Unemployment assistance &
Job creation programs Education Assistance
Tax Cuts to stimulate the economy
Modernization of schools, libraries, hospitals, & nursing homes
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LBJ’s Remarks at the University of Michigan:
(May 22, 1964) Next Generation’s
challenge = solve the problem of poverty
American need to build a “Great Society”
abundance and liberty for all
three places to build the Great Society in our cities in our countryside in our classrooms
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Major Great Society Programs
War on Poverty: forty programs that were
intended to eliminate poverty by improving living conditions and
enabling people to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty. HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBANDEVELOPMENT ACT FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1964 URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION
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Johnson & the War on Poverty
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Improving Education
Education: sixty separate bills that provided for new and better-equipped
classrooms, minority scholarships, and low-interest student loans. HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT of
1968 Head Start: program for four-
and five-year-old children from low-income families.
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HEALTHCARE:MEDICARE AND
MEDICAID Medicare & Medicaid:
guaranteed health care to every American over sixty-five and to low-income families.
Medicare was eventually passed during the LBJ administration
It was first passed on July 30, 1965 It served as an amendment to Social
Security
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Environment and the Arts
The Environment: introduced measures to protect clean air and water. CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1963
National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: government funding for artists, writers and performers. NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE
ARTS & THE HUMANITIES ACT
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GREAT SOCIETY
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5min LBJ Great Soc