May 14th

[6Jilian]

Harry Truman

*         33^rd president

*         May 8^th 1884 in Lamar, MO-died December 26^th 1972

*         Baptist

*         Married June 28,1919

*         Piano, avid reader, couldn’t afford to go to college

*         Give Em Hell Harry

*         Poor eye sight 

*         Ran against Thomas E. Dewey

*         At the beginning he had 90% popularity and then went down in 1952, right after came back up to 31%

*         Kind of thrown into presidency 

*         Known for dropping bombs on Nagasaki

*         “The Buck Stops Here”

*         Recognized Isreal for home place for Jews

*         “Ended WW2 with the atomic bombs and led us into the cold war”

*         Fair Deal

• Blacks
• Ed.
• Old people
• Much didn’t pass due to politics

Eisenhower

*        Born in 1890

*        Grew up in Abilene Kansas

*        General in WW2- 5 stars

• Assumed command over NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

*        2 terms

• 1952
• 1956
• Both against Adlai Stevenson
• “I like Ike”

Accomplishments

*        Desegregated the Army and Schools

*        Brown vs. the board of education in Topeka, Kansas

*        NASA

*        Balanced the budget

*        Ended the Korean War

*        People to People International

*        Interstate Highway System

*        Civil Right Bill of 1957

*        Little Rock Mob Control

*        Furthered Social Security

*        The Eisenhower Doctrine

*        65% Average approval rating

 John F Kennedy 

I had him for my presentation. I have all my notes on him. 

JFK act. 

Warren report!!! 

Lyndon Baines Johnson 

• School in Johnson City, Texas 
• College at Texas State University 
• Was a teacher for public speaking after college 
• Southern democrat 
• He and kennedy fought while he was vp 
• 37th vp 
• 1st and only pres to be sworn in on aircraft 
• only pres to be sworn in by a women 
• The Great Society 
  • speech about what he wanted for our country 
  • medicare 
    • help elderly pay for hospital care 
  • Medicaid 
    • help poor pay for hospital care 
  • civil rights acts 
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 
  • no poverty 
  • wanted equality 
  • trying to remove segregation 
• President during Vietnam war 
  • big push for U.S. 
• Life after Presidency 
  • Went back to the country and wrote books 
  • If no health problems, maybe would've ran for president again 
• Death 
  • January 22, 1973 
  • 2 days after Nixon started 2nd term, 1 day before Vietnam ended 
  • died of heart attack 
  • smoke 60+ cigs a day 
• Accomplishments 
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 
  • Voting Rights Act (1965) 
  • Affirmative action laws 
  • The Great Society 
    • Headstart pre k
    • Education! 

Richard M. Nixon 

• Early Life
  • January 9, 1913 
  • Yorba Linda, CA 
  • Duke University 
  • Law School 
  • Married Thelma "Pat" Ryan 
• Politics 
  • Joined Navy til 1946 
  • November 1946 he joined house of rep. 
  • Very anti-communist 
  • U.S. Senator in 1950 
  • Vice President - Eisenhower 1952-1960
  • Checkers Speech 
    • dis proved them and said the only gift he got from the money was a dog named checkers for his daughter
  • Election of 1960 
    • Kennedy and Byrd 
    • Kennedy won 
  • Election of 1968 
    • Nixon vs. Humphrey and Wallace 
    • won by 500,000 pop. votes 
    • January 20, 1969 Nixon was 37th president of U.S. 
  • Election of 1972 
    • Nixon vs. McGovern 
    • Won with 20 mil more votes 
  • 10 Accomplishments
    • Very "green" president 
    • Desegregation of southern schools 
    • Welcomed Apollo 11 astronauts 
    • Passed the 26th amendment 
      • allowed 18 year old to vote 
    • Signed Title 9 
      • Allowed women to get equal pay for jobs, scholarships, etc. 
      • In H.S. they had fair court times and more womens sports 
    • "Vietnamization" 
      • bombing of Laos and Cambodia 
    • Visited China 
      • helped reduce china and u.s. tension
      • helped us get more allied with china 
    • 1973 Yom Kippur War 
      • Israel 
    • Watergate scandal
      • burglars went into water gate complex and stole top secret documents and bugged phones. it was the headquarters for the democratic party. they were members of CREEP. 
      • June 17, 1972 
      • burglars caught in Watergate complex (big office motel in d.c.)
      • Nixon claimed he wasn't involved 
        • later discovered that Nixon was involved 
        • CIA tried to stop FBI from investigating the water gate 
      • August 5, 1974 nixon released the tapes 
      • August 8, Nixon resigns 
      • September 8, Ford comes in 
    • Popularity 

Gerald Ford 

• Background 
  • Born July 14, 1913 
  • Star college football player @ michigan 
  • served in navy 
  • died in 2006 
• Presidential Election 
  • Took over w/out being voted in 
  • Ford ran again and lost to Carter in 1979 
• Achievements
  • Economic Policy Board 
  • Whip Inflation Now - WIN 
  • Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974 
  • Freedom of Info Act 
  • Privacy Act of 1974
• Approval 
  • Highest and Lowest in 1974 
• First unelected president 

Jimmy Carter 

• Background
  
  • Born October 1, 1924 in Georgia 
  • Married to Rosalynn Carter 
  • Had 4 children 
  • Democratic 
• Legacy 
  • 39th president
  • won Nobel peace prize in 2002 
• Achievements
  • Department of Energy 
  • Department of Education 
  • Brokered Israel-Egypt treaty 
  • Install Solar Panels on the White House
  • Boycotted the 1980 Olympics 
  • Granted amnesty to Vietnam Draft-Dodgers
  • Established diplomatic relations with China
  • Pushed for comprehensive health care reform 
  • Returned the Panama Canal to Panama 
• Wasn't liked due to 
  • High gas prices 
  • Bad economy 
  • Iran Hostage Crisis 

Ronald Reagan 

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