Lyndon B. Johnson (R) - 36th President
Background
Born on August 27, 1908 in Stonewall, TX
Married Claudia Alta Taylor
3 sisters 1 brother
teacher
Texas director of the NYA
Brought electricity yo Texas Hill COuntry
WWII became congressional inspector of the war progress in the Pacific
Vice President
Domestic Accomplishments
Signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Higher Education Act to improve funding to schools, especially those in poor districts
Signed Civil Rights Act outlawing racial segregation
- MLK gave his "I Have A Dream" speech
Appointed Thurgood Marshall as 1st African American Justice on Supreme Court
Established the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts to support humanists and artists
Created programs for poverty like food stamps, work study and medicare
Presided over the first manned flight to the Moon with the Apollo 8 program
- Started affirmative action laws
Accomplishments
served on a tour of the South Pacific and flew one combat mission
had to come back because of mechanical difficulty but received a Silver Star
- The Great Society
- Aid education*
- Attack disease
- Medicare and Medicaid*
- Urban renewal
- war on poverty*
- removing obstacles on the right to vote*
- Gun Control Laws
- Regulated firearm because of all the assassinations in the 60's
Richard Nixon
Background
- Born on January 9, 1913
- Yorba Linda, California
- Parents- Frank and Hannah Nixon n
- Father was a service station manager and grocier
- mom was a quaker
- Won the Senate Seat in 1950
- Selected to be the Vice President of Eisenhower when he ran for president
Election 1960
- Ran against John F Kennedy and Harry F. Bird
- Lost the election the JFK
Election 1968
- Won the Republican party's nomination
- Won by one of the closest margins in history
Election 1972
- Defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern
- Won by one of the largest margins on record
Nixon's Approval Rating
- First Term
- 55.8%
- Second Term
- 34.4%
- Overall
- 49%
Top Ten Accomplishments
- Watergate
- Visits China- peace
- Equal rights amendment- women
- Apollo 11- Fulfilled Kennedy's dream
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Congress broadens U.S. Civil Rights Commissions
- Title 9- equal for women
- Office Management and Budget
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Nuclear Arms control agreements with Soviet Unions
- Nixon Doctrine (Guam Doctrine)
Foreign Accomplishments
signed the Immigration Act of 1965, which substantially liberalized US immigration policy towards non-Europeans
Drastically escalated American involvement in VIetnam
Elections
61.1% of the popular vote
44 out of 50 states and District of Columbia
Alaska voted Democrat for the first and only time
486 electoral votes
against Barry M. Goldwater
Approval Rating
highest was 74.2% approval
November 1963 - January 1965
Legacy
Extended the New Deal
Vietnam war made people question if he was right for us
Vietnamese lost homes and lives
US lives were altered
Civil rights.
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