Lydon B Johnson:
- from Texas
- Senator
- 36th president of the U.S (1963-1969)
- Took over as President after JFK was assassinated
- 1964 election-was a blow out against Berry Goldwater
- Electoral shift- where part of the country completely switches political parties.
- Johnson and Vietnam
- The Vietnam conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency
- Great Society
- Johnson's plan for
- aid education
- attack disease
- Medicare(for old people) and Medicaid(younger people in poverty)
- Urban Renewal
- Beautification, conservations, 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 of 1965, which focused on funding lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans
- Set up National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts
- Economic Opportunity Act helped start Head Start, food stamps, work study, Medicare and Medicaid.
- Gun Control Act of 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. Passed in response to the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK
- Accomplishments
- Put together the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination
- Passed Civil Right Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation
- Passed Voting Rights Act (1965) 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-European people to immigrate to US. Immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970
Richard Nixon
- 37th president
- 1969-1974
- Vice President of Eisenhower
- Lost the 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-Nixon vs. Herbert Humphrey and George Wallace
- Was a Republican
- Was a very close election
- 1972 election-Nixon vs. George McGovern
- Nixon had huge lead
- Over 60%
- Dirty Tricks Campaign
- Nixon accused Democratic candidates of lies
- Accomplishments
- Vietnam Conflict dominated much of his presidency-war became very unpopular
- Promised to end the war- "Peace with honor"
- Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos-bombing Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as pomised
- The Nixon Doctrine-"Vietnamization" of the war
- Vietnamization- trained the Vietnamese and then leave and let them fight it out
- Paris P
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