LBJ
- vietnam dominated most of LBJ's presidency
- his approval rates went down and disapproval rates went up
- after presidency he went back to Texas and wrote a few books
- in died 1973 of a massive heart attack
accomplishments
- Put together the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination
- Passed Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation
- Passed Voting Rights act which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time
- started affirmative action laws
- Passed immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non-European people to immigrate to US. Immigration more that doubled between 1965-1970
The Great Society
- Aid educaion
- attack disease
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Urban renewal
- beautification, conservation, development, 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- for the first time, large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools
- Higher education act, which focused on funding lower income students
- Gun control act of 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. Passed in response to the assassination of JFK RFK and MLK
- "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my part for another term as your President."
Richard Nixon
- born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, CA
- poor childhood "We were poor, but the glory of it was we didn't know it" -Nixon
- graduated second in his class
- Full scholarship to Duke university
- got married
- Moved to DC and took a job in Roosevelt's office of Price Administration
- Joined Navy until 1946
- in 1946 Nixon joined the House of Representaives
- member of the House Un-american Activities Committee, led the investigation of Alger Hiss
- Became US Senator in 1950 afer ruining Helen Douglas's reputation, Nicknamed "Tricky Dick"
- vice president under Eisenhower 1952-60
- Gave "Checkers Speech"
- traveled to the sovier Union and had the "kitchen Debate" with General Secretary with Nikita Khrushchev
- Nixon vs Kennedy and Byrd in the election of 1960
- Narrowly lost to kennedy with 120,000 votes
- election of 1968 Nixon vs Hubert Humphrey and George wallave
- calm amidst the storm
- won by 500,000
- Nixon won
- election of 1972 Nixon vs George McGovern
- Won with 20 million more popular votes and over 500 more electoral votes
- CREEP committed political sabotage
accomplishment
- founded EPA, CAA, CWA, MMPA
- desegregation of southern schools
- Welcomed Apollo 11 atronuats
- passed the 26th amendment
- signed title 9
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