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LYNDON JOHNSON and RICHARD NIXON

LYNDON JOHNSON and RICHARD NIXON. The Great Society Vietnam Democrats Fragment Nixon’s Comeback Nixon’s Fall. The Great Society:1965-1966. War on Poverty: 20% under poverty line Blacks, elderly, Appalachian, rural whites Office of Economic Opportunity: Shriver

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LYNDON JOHNSON and RICHARD NIXON

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  1. LYNDON JOHNSONandRICHARD NIXON The Great Society Vietnam Democrats Fragment Nixon’s Comeback Nixon’s Fall

  2. The Great Society:1965-1966 • War on Poverty: 20% under poverty line • Blacks, elderly, Appalachian, rural whites • Office of Economic Opportunity: Shriver • Self help: job training, Head Start, education • Great Society: 89 laws: Low rent Housing • Education Act: federal grants to poor states • Medicare: Extends SS pay for health care • Medicaid: medical care for poor

  3. Lyndon Johnson: 1963-1969

  4. Vietnam Escalation • History: Ho Chi Minh, Vietminh • 1964: Diem coup, 16,000 advisors, $50 m • Gulf of Tonkin Affair: Congress authorizes • Operation Rolling Thunder: bombing • Ho Chi Minh Trial: Soviet & China supples • Viet Cong: pro communist insurgents • Westmoreland fights guerrillas, My Lai village • Ground troops: 184,000 troops in 1965 • 485,000 troops in 1967, McNamara

  5. Vietnam

  6. Bombings: 3x WWII

  7. McNamara: Sec of Defense

  8. Anti-Vietnam Protests

  9. War Protests • LBJ’s personality • War takes money from Great Society • Anti-war protests • Counter-culture: Hippies • Youth movement: SDS

  10. Counter-culture

  11. Radical Movements • Great Society: Self Help to Welfare and • Guaranteed income • SDS to Weathermen • Martin Luther King to Black Power • SNNC and Stokely Carmichael • Black Panthers and Huey Newton • Black Muslims and Malcolm X • Riots: hundreds of race riots • Harlem Riots 1964, Watts 1965 • Martin Luther King shot

  12. Malcolm X

  13. Black Panthers

  14. 1968 Election: Dems Fragment • Eugene McCarthy challenges LBJ • LBJ: “I will not seek another term” • Herbert Humphry: LBJ’s VP, too close • To LBJ, war protesters follow him • Robert Kennedy runs: starts to win • Wins California primary: shot • George Wallace: lower class whites • Riots at Dem convention in Chicago

  15. Nixon’s Comeback • Nixon Wins 1968: Silent majority, Law • and order, middle ground, new Nixon • Conservative Resurgence: people want • Normal life, conservative populism • Personality: a loner, paranoid • Détente: arms control w/ Soviets • China: opens up China, Kissinger • Ends Vietnam: 4 part plan

  16. Nixon: SALT Treaty

  17. Nixon Opens China

  18. Nixon Resigns Aug 19, 1974

  19. Nixon’s Fall • Moderate Domestic Policy: price fixing • 1972 Reelection: Foreign policy success • “bring the country together” • Dems: Eugene McGovern: grow welfare • Nixon wins landslide: 49 state victory • Watergate: break-in, cover up, enemies • Watergate legacy

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