jfk, lbj & nixon 1961-1974 created by mr. johnson
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JFK, LBJ & NixonJFK, LBJ & Nixon1961-19741961-1974
Created by Mr.
Johnson
Objective• 11.06 – Identify political events &
the actions and reactions of the government officials and citizens, and assess the social and political consequences.
Terms & Concepts• Voter apathy
• New Frontier
• Peace Corps
• Great Society
• HUD
• Head Start
• VISTA
• Medicare
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Robert F. Kennedy
• 1968 Democratic Convention
• Watergate scandal
• Sam Ervin/Senate Watergate Committee
• Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
• John Dean
• U.S. v. Nixon (1974)
• 25th Amendment
KennedyKennedy1961-1963
Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 1960
Video of the debate
Election of 1960• 11.06 -
“Camelot”
Kennedy’s Inaugural Address“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
JFK’s “New Frontier”• Civil Rights
−Federal marshals (James Meredith & Freedom Riders)
−Equal Housing Act
• Women−Equal Pay Act
• Peace Corps
• Apollo Program
JFK’s Cold War Policy• Latin America -
Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Alliance for Progress
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Vietnam – Advisors, withdrawal(?)
Assassination
Click here for video
LBJ Takes the Oath of Office
Lee Harvey Oswald• US Marine…
Soviet Union
• Attempted assassination of Gen. Edwin Walker
• Assassination of JFK−Killing of Police
Officer Tippit−Killed by Jack Ru
by
Funeral
25th Amendment• Chain of
presidential succession
• Response to JFK assassination & nuclear threat
JohnsonJohnson1963-1969
1964 Election
LBJ’s “War on Poverty”• “Great Society”
−Education−Healthcare−Housing−Immigration
LBJ’s “Great Society”• New Deal-
style reforms
• “Welfare State”Click here for video
“The Johnson Treatment”
HUD• Low
income housing projects
• “Urban renewal”
Head Start• Pre-K for low-
income children
Food Stamps
VISTA• Volunteers
in Service to America
• “Domestic Peace Corps”
NEH• National
Endowment for the Humanities−Art,
culture & history
−Education & public radio/TV
Medicare• Health
insurance for seniors
Medicaid• Health
care for low income people
LBJ & Civil Rights• 1964 Civil
Rights Act
• 1965 Voting Rights Act
• 24th Amendment
• Appointed Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court
LBJ’s Cold War Policy• Vietnam War
−“Domino Theory”−1964 – Tonkin Gulf
Resolution (“Blank Check”)
−1965 – Operation Rolling Thunder… Escalation
−1968 – Tet Offensive
• Support for Israel vs. Arab countries
The Costs of Vietnam“If I left the woman I really loved-the Great Society - in order to get involved in that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home… But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser and we would both find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe."
-Lyndon B. Johnson
19681968
“I Shall Not Seek……and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
LBJ Steps Aside
MLK Assassination
“I May Not Get There With You”
Assassination – April 4, 1968
Assassination Riots
Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the King assassination
Robert F. Kennedy• Democratic
presidential candidate
• Called for immediate end to Vietnam War
• Assassination – June 4, 1968
Sirhan Sirhan• RFK assassin
• Christian Arab from Jordan
Democratic Convention
Candidates of 1968
Richard Nixon
Republican
Hubert Humphrey
Democrat
George Wallace
American Independent
“Law & Order”
Republican “Southern Strategy”• “State’s
rights”…
• Split working-class whites away from blacks
• New “Solid South” is Republican
End of New Deal Coalition
NixonNixon1969-1974
Nixon’s Foreign Policy
Nixon’s Domestic Policy• “New Federalism”
• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• “War on Drugs” begins
• 1973 Yom Kippur War− OPEC Embargo− Energy Crisis− “Stagflation”
• Apollo 11 Moon landing
• Leak Scandals− Pentagon Papers− COINTELPRO− Watergate
EPA
OSHA
War on Drugs
Apollo 11
1973 Yom Kippur War
1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo
1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing
1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices
1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation
Pentagon Papers Leak
COINTELPRO
The “Plumbers”
1972 Election
Watergate Hotel Burglary
The Break-In
Patrick Grey• Nixon-appointed
director of the FBI
• Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation
Woodward & Bernstein
John Dean• White House
counsel
• “Mastermind of the cover-up”
• Testifies against Nixon
Spiro Agnew• Vice President
• Resigned for failure to pay income taxes
Watergate TapesClick here for video
Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation
“Saturday Night Massacre”
Archibald Cox, special prosecutor
Elliot Richardson, Attorney General William
Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General
FiredFired
ResignedResigned
ResignedResigned
All Alone…
U.S. v. Nixon, 1974
Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive
privilege”
Resignation
Nixon resigns
Ford’s Pardon• Controversial
decision
• Allowed the nation to “move on”
Distrust & Voter Apathy
Gil Scott-Heron
“H2OGate Blues” + lyrics