Today we finished the blog discussions, then worked on notes from the powerpoint.
Lyndon Johnson:
-aid education
-attack disease
-Medicare and Medicaid
-Gun Control Act of 1968-regulates the firearms industry
Richard Nixon:
-vice president of Eisenhower
-only person to be elected 2 times to both president and vice president
-only president to resign from office
-started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised
-expanded war to Cambodia and Laos-bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail
-Paris Peace Accords signed 1973 stopped the fighting and got us out of the war
-National Enviromental Policy Act
-Clean Air act of 1970
-War on Drugs-1971
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