President Lyndon Johnson: was the vice president while JFK was in office, and when JFK was assassination he ran for President in the 1964 election against Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was popular in the deep south, but very unpopular everywhere else compared to Johnson. Johnson won by a landslide in that election. Lyndon Johnson was president from 1965 through 1969. Johnson was riddled with a good number of medical issues, and he did not run for another term as president because of it.
LBJ Accomplishments: passed policies such as healthcare like Medicare and Medicaid. These healthcare companies are still around today. Passed the Civil Rights Act that outlawed segregation, and he also passed the Voting Rights Act so that there was no segregation in voting. Passed Environmental Protection acts, and that was to protect and preserve environmental areas and protect endangered birds. He put together the Warren Commisssion to investigate the JFK assassination. He started affirmative action laws, which required colleges and businesses to accept and hire minority students/workers. He passed the Immigration Act of 1965, and this allowed more non-European people to immigrate to the US. Immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970. The Great Society explained Johnson's plan to aid education, attack disease, create Medicare and Medicaid, start more urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, war on poverty, control and prevention of crime, and the removal of obstacles to the right to vote. All of these points of the Great Society was to help the people that were less fortunate. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was the first time that large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools. The Higher Education Act of 1965 focused on funding lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans. Another part of the Great Society Act was the Gun Control Act of 1968, and it regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. It was passed in response to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
Richard Nixon: Kelsey's, Abby's, and mine. Nixon was vice president to Eisenhower, and he was the only president to have resigned out of office, but he would have been impeached out of office anyway because of the Watergate Scandal. The 1968 election wasn't quite a blowout between Nixon, Humphries, and Wallace. Nixon won, and then when he ran for a second term against George McGoven.
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