Today, we did a blog discussion.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
- From Texas
- Decided to not run in 1968
- For immigration
- Johnson’s plant to aid education, attack disease, Medicare and Medicaid, urban renewal (rebuilding cities), Beatifications, conservation, development of depressed regions, war on poverty, control and prevention of crime
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965—for the first time, large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools
- Higher Education Act of 1965—focused on funding lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans
- Set up the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the arts
- Economic Opportunity Act helped start Head Start (preschool), food stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicaid
- Gun Control Act of 1968= banned people to have guns
- One of the first acts that started to ban people from having things
- Ended the sale of weapons to minors
- 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 1965—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 than doubled between 1965-1970
- Vietnam Conflict dominated much of Johnson’s presidency
- Believed in Domino Theory
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964- Congress gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit
-Richard Nixon
- 37th president
- 1969-1974
- Vice- President of Eisenhower
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- The only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency
- Only president to resign from office
- 1968 election ran against Hubert Humphrey
- Closest election and won by 1% popular vote
- Talked about foreign policy and the Vietnam War
- Promised to end the Vietnam War
- Last deal with segregation
- Bring the country together
- 1972 election
- Against George McGovern
- Blowout election
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