President Lyndon Johnson- 36th 1963-1969
- JFK's vice president; took over when Kennedy was assassinated
- A Senator from Texas originally so Kennedy added him on to his party so that he could use Johnson to get southern votes. (Although they didn't necessarily like each other very much)
Elections:
- Apart of 1 election (as president)- 1964 election; he won easily against Barry Goldwater. Decided not to run again in 1968 mainly becauase of the Vietnam War situation.
- Johnson preached that if people voted for Goldwater that a nuclear war would start; he wanted to keep people out of wars, but he was the one who sent thousands of troops over to vietnam to fight.
Accomplishments:
- Immigration and Nationall- opened up immigration; main focus was making its easier for immigrants to come over who had family who were already citizens of the United States.
- Great Society Program=eliminate poverty, aid education, attack disease, medicare and medicaid, urban renewal, beuatiication/development of depressed regions, war on poverty, control prevention of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
- Great Society Program = For the first time, large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools.
- One way to get out of going to the Vietnam War was to go to college so that number went up drastically.
- Head Start = before kindergarten, it gives lower income families give kids a head start so they are all caught up when they officially start school
- Gave loans to higher-school kids
- Gun Contol Act of 1968 - he wanted to stop the unproper use of gun usage; three assassinations that helped this bill pass was.. 1. Kennedy 2. Bobby Kennedy 3. Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights
- Past the Civil Rights movement of 1964 = outlawed racial segregation in the United States
- Passed Votin Rights Act of 1965 which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for teh first time
- Allowed for the arrest and prosectution of members (4 during his time) of the KKK.
- Affirmative Action Laws = ultimatley it forces buisnesses and colleges to accept (mostly) the African Americans.
- Public Prodcasting Act = helping minorites, education, colored
Vietnam - ruined his presidency
- Campaigned that we would not get involved but when he won the election he pushed to get involved in this war
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