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Great Society:
Johnson Plans to..
aid education
diseases
Medicare and Medicad
urban renewal
beautification, conservation, developement of depressed regions.
war on poverty.
control and prevention of crime
removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965: federal money went to public schools, focus was poor schools.
Higher Education Act of 1965: focused on funding lower income students.
Set up the National Endowment for the Arts.
Economic Opportunity Act helped start Head Start, food stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicad.
Gun Control Act of 1968 - regulates the firearms industry and firearm owners. Passed in response to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
Johnson and Vietnam
Vietnam Conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency.
Believed in Domino Theory - of one country falls, the rest will.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 - Congress gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit.
President Richard Nixon
37th President, 1969-1974
Vice President of Eisenhower.
Lost 1960 election to JFK
Only person to be elected twice to both Presidency and the Vice Presidency
Only President to resign from office. (or he was gonna get kicked out
Accomplishments
Vietnam Conflict domiated much of his presidency-war became very unpopular.
Promised to end the war "Peace with honnor."
Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos - Bombing Ho Chi MinhTrial
Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised.
The Nixon Doctrine - "Vietnamization" of the war.
Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war.
Enviromental Decade
National Enviromental Policy Act.
Clean Air Act of 1970
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Established many government agencies:
Enviromental Protection Agency.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Council on Enviromental Quality.
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