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JFK, D, Ma
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35th President
1961 – 1963
1st Catholic
“Ask not what your country can
do for you, but what you can do
for your country”
Assassinated in office
Kennedy Nixon Debates
New Frontier
Continues in FDR’s shoes
 Aid to:
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◦ Schools, preservation, mass transit
◦ Medical insurance for elderly - SS
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Federal government should be active, strong and visible
in people’s life
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
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Space exploration
Desire to put astronaut on the moon
◦ YouTube - JFK speech (Man on the moon)
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1969 US lands on the moon
YouTube - First Moon Landing 1969
Peace Corps
Women and men of all ages
 Assist developing nations
 Promote US ideals
 Volunteer for 2-3 years
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Assassination
YouTube - Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassination
 Kennedy Assassination
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LBJ, D, Tx
36th President
 1963 – 1969
 Elected once
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◦ Takes over for JFK
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Texas school teacher
The Great Society
LBJ’s extension of
New Deal and New
Frontier
 Goals
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◦ War on Poverty
◦ Improve Education
◦ End Discrimination
Office of Economic Opportunity
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Agency to direct War on Poverty
◦ Project Head Start
 Education for preschoolers and poor families
◦ Project Upward Bound
 Help poor high school students go to college
◦ Job Corps
 provide vocational training for HS dropouts
Health Care
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Medicare
◦ Social Security will now pay for some healthcare for those over
65
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Medicaid
◦ Money given to states to provide funds for those not covered
under Medicare
School
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
◦ $1 billion to schools
 Most to poor districts
◦ To accept money, schools must be integrated
Ending Discrimination
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
◦ Segregation in public is illegal
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
◦ Barriers to voting are illegal
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24th Amendment
◦ Poll tax is illegal
Results of the Great Society
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Deficit
◦ 1961 = $94 Billion
◦ 1971 = $171 Billion
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Poverty
◦ 1959 = 26% of Americans live in poverty
◦ 1969 = 12% of Americans live in poverty
1968 Election
Johnson decides not to run
 RFK is killed
 Hubert Humphrey runs for Dems.
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◦ YouTube - 1968 Chicago
◦ YouTube - 1968 DNC: Democratic nightmare in Chicago
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Richard Nixon runs for Rep.
Nixon (R)
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37th Pres
1969 – 1974
Congressmen / Senator from
Cali
Lost to JFK in 1960
Eased Cold War Tensions
Resigned
Changing Foreign Policy
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Nixon Doctrine
◦ US will no longer provide direct military protection in Asia
Trip to China
1971
 Open the door to diplomatic
relations
 Economic changes
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◦ New market
◦ New goods
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Cultural exchanges
Detente
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Goal is to ease tension with
the Soviets
◦ Designed to prevent open
conflict
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Visits Soviet Union in May
1972
◦ Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
(SALT)
 Limits the amount of missiles each
side would keep
Watergate Scandal
June 17, 1972
 Watergate is a hotel
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◦ Democratic Party headquarters
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Illegal break in and wiretap of
phones
◦ Want information to help Nixon get
reelected
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Several Nixon advisers are aware
What did Nixon do?
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Nixon was unaware
of the activities
After the burglars
are arrested he is
informed
The cover up begins
Senate investigates
Nixon is reelected in
1972
The Nixon Tapes
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Recordings of convos between Nixon and
aides
◦ Tapes prove Nixon ordered the cover-up
Nixon refuses to hand over tapes
 US v. Richard Nixon
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◦ Nixon is ordered to surrender the tapes
Nixon is accused of obstructing justice
Denies it - YouTube - Nixon "I'm not a
crook" press conference
The End
House begins to vote on articles
of impeachment
 Nixon resigns – August 9, 1974
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◦ Only president to resign
◦ YouTube - President Richard Nixon Address Announcing Resignation
Gerald Ford, R, Mi.
38th President
 1974 – 1976
 Only President to never
be elected
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Ford pardons Nixon
◦ “To end the national
nightmare”
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Decline in public’s
trust in government