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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