LBJ
- Vietnam
- his approval rate went down over the years
Accomplishments
- Civil Rights Act
- Voting Rights Act
- Warren Commission
- 24th Amendment
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- Affirmative Action laws
- Immigration Act
- poverty
- medicare and medicaid
- schools
- loans, grants, for college
- Gun control act
Richard Nixon
- very poor
- founded EPA, CAA, CWA, MMPA (environmental laws)
- declared war on drugs
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- desegregation
- Apollo 11
- 26th amendment
- Title 9
- took down organized crime
- visited China - reduced tensions
- Watergate Scandal - 5 burglars broke into Democrratic National Headquarters to find things against democrat
Gerald Ford
- Served in Navy
- Became president after Nixon's resignation
- 1976 election, lost to Jimmy Carter
- Pardoned Nixon which may be reason he lost election
- Education for handicapped children
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