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THE COUNTERCULTURE – THE 50S INTO THE 60S … A PHOTO FILE

THE COUNTERCULTURE – THE 50S INTO THE 60S … A PHOTO FILE. Scott Masters Crestwood College. 40s & 50s Presidents. Harry S. Truman. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Modern Republicanism Conservative/Laissez Fair yet continued Fair Deal (expanding Social Security) Interstate Highway System Little Rock

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  1. THE COUNTERCULTURE – THE 50S INTO THE 60S…A PHOTO FILE Scott Masters Crestwood College

  2. 40s & 50s Presidents Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Modern Republicanism Conservative/Laissez Fair yet continued Fair Deal (expanding Social Security) Interstate Highway System Little Rock Containment Housing, Economic Boom, Conformity • Fair Deal • GI Bill • Baby Boom/ Suburbs • Sunbelt • Taft-Hartley Act • Desegregation: Commission and military • Containment

  3. Television debate : Appearance versus substance Television ads: campaign spending $ Main Issues: “missile gap” religion Close election results http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRpxKHlRQUc Significances of the 1960 Nixon Kennedy Campaign

  4. Inauguration Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0iPY7XGBo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6U8GActdQ&NR=1

  5. Text of Inaugural Address

  6. Text of Inaugural Address

  7. Text of Inaugural Address

  8. “…Our faith in him and in what he was trying to do was absolute, and he could impart to our work together a sense of challenge and adventure-a feeling that he was moving, and the world with him, toward a better time.” Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary Glencoe text p. 842 Kennedy’s Charisma:

  9. Increase aid to education Provide health insurance to the elderly Create Dept. of Urban Affairs Help Migrant Workers Tax Cut to Stimulate economy Medicare Civil Rights Legislation “New Frontier” Goals

  10. Despite Democratic large majorities in House and Senate, Kennedy could not pass his New Frontier legislation. WHY? Kennedy’s Critics:

  11. Despite Democratic large majorities in House and Senate, Kennedy could not pass his New Frontier legislation. WHY? Kennedy’s Critics:

  12. Congress could follow their own interest: “A good many [congressional representatives] were elected in 1960 in spite of his presence on the ticket rather than because his name was there.” Congressional Democrat US News & World Report Kennedy’s Critics

  13. Republicans and Southern Democrats viewed New Frontier too costly Kennedy’s Critics Southern Democrats controlled Congress

  14. Minor deficit spending Increased funding for defense and space exploration Supported supply-side economics and tax cuts “A rising tide lifts all boats.” Congress denied tax cuts out of fear of inflation Kennedy: the Pragmatist

  15. Less of Ike’s “brinkmanship” and more “flexible response” more conventional troops and weapons Support of Special Forces “Green Berets” Kennedy: the Pragmatist http://www.specialoperations.com/Army/Special_Forces/SF_Info/Story.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwKYXRLP0rY

  16. Poverty and corruption in Latin America Kennedy wants to thwart communist expansion in Latin America Alliance for Progress $20 billion aid for better schools, housing and health care Designed to counter leftist movements Chile, Colombia, Venezeula, and Central America benefited A “Marshall Plan” for Latin America?

  17. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their needs for trained men and women. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of all Americans. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Peace+Corps.htm http://www.peacecorps.gov/ Kennedy’s Enduring Legacy: The Peace Corps

  18. http://www.nootrope.net/kennedy.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e08r5IRTbjE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4kDezFUk8 The Space Race: “man on the moon”

  19. CIA trained 1,400 Cuban Exiles Kennedy cancelled air support Cubans did not rise up in support of exiles Castro personally led defense of island 1,189 captured/100 killed US paid $53 in food and medicine for their release Bay of Pigs, Cuba: April 17, 1961 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/bay-of-pigs/kennedy-2506-flag.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/baypigs.htm&h=580&w=743&sz=149&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=EaDthiYRThqXLM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=141&prev=/imag

  20. Berlin Wall June 1961 http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/photographs/berlinwall-1961.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARQ4EDKlQ0k

  21. http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/Kennedy-John-F.htmlhttp://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/Kennedy-John-F.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/john_fitzgerald_kennedy/index.html?inline=nyt-per BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERNCE SITES: GlencoeTHE AMERICAN VISIONCh. 28 page 840-860

  22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZyeG4tdOQ http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/

  23. The Great Society A War on Poverty The War in Vietnam The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Voting Rights Act of 1965

  24. The Texan’s Family

  25. Congressional Staffer Member of the House of Representatives U.S. Senator Majority Leader Vice-President LBJ’s Resume

  26. Reputation of being “overpowering and intimidating” Invaded personal space: nose to nose “persuasive and personable rather than elegant and charming” “The Johnson Treatment” Glencoe American History text p.855

  27. The Texan’s Style

  28. “There are tens of millions of Americans who are beyond the welfare state. Taken as a whole there is a culture of poverty…bad health, poor housing, low levels of aspiration, and high levels of mental distress. Twenty percent of a nation, some 32,000,000.” Michael Harrington, author of the Culture of Poverty 1962 War on Poverty

  29. “The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.” LBJ 1964 War on Poverty • Medicare and Medicaid • Head Start • HUD • Job Corps • Water Quality and Clean Air Acts • Highway Safety Act • Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

  30. The 1964 Election

  31. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAtUjJpVLY Conservatives take over the 1964 Republican National Convention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7is2yU-uQ&mode=related&search= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxlsr3UUkY&mode=related&search= Ronald Reagan campaigns for AgH20 1964 Republican CandidateAZ Sen. Barry Goldwater

  32. “The Daisy Ad”

  33. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl4awae0R0M&mode=related&search=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl4awae0R0M&mode=related&search= “The Daisy Ad”

  34. Johnson/Humphrey

  35. The Results

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