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Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ

Discover President Lyndon B. Johnson's impactful tenure, promoting civil rights with key legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, navigating the Vietnam War, and creating the Great Society programs to combat poverty and inequality.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ

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  1. Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ President: 1963-1968 Political Party: Democrat Vice President: Hubert Humphrey

  2. LBJ The Presidents • Civil Rights • Vietnam War • Great Society

  3. Legacy inherited by LBJ 2 July 1964: Pres. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Voting: illegal to apply different standards to black and white applicants – literacy • Public accommodations: law forbade discrimination in most public restaurants, hotels, motels, lunch counters retail stores, theaters and sports arenas • Public Facilities: law forbade discrimination in government owned or operated parks, swimming pools, and libraries • Federally Assisted Programs: Government could withhold financial aid from state and local programs that involved discrimination • Employment: The law forbade discriminatory practices by employers, employment agencies and labor unions, the law created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Criminal to discriminate/affirmative Action

  4. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Notes in Civil Rights timeline!

  5. Legacy inherited by LBJ 2 June 1965: Voting Rights Act 1965 passed by Congress • In any state where less than half of the voting age population were registered to vote, all literacy requirements were suspended • Atty. General was empowered to send in Federal examiners to any state where voter discrimination occurred to register all would be voters • Atty. General empowered to file suits challenging constitutionality of the state poll taxes

  6. Foreign PolicyVietnam • Vietnam had been a French colony, and controlled by Japanese • Truman and Eisenhower sent aid after WWII • 1954 Geneva accords split Vietnam into North and South along the 17th parallel • Ho Chi Minh, led independence movement • Aided by South Vietnamese Viet Cong

  7. Foreign PolicyGulf of Tonkin • North Vietnamese torpedoed boats and attacked an American Destroyer • LBJ asked Congress for: “all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the US and to prevent further aggression” • This gave LBJ broad military power

  8. Foreign PolicyEscalation • March 1965 LBJ began sending troops to fight the Viet Cong & North Vietnamese. • Tens of thousands more troops sent • 61% of Americans supported this escalation.

  9. War on Poverty Alleviate poverty Proposed legislation Economic Opportunity Act 1 billion dollars for youth programs Job Corps: Economic Opportunity Act VISTA Head Start Antipoverty measures CAP: Community Action Programs Domestic PolicyWar on Poverty = THE GREAT SOCIETY

  10. Domestic Policy • 1964 Reelection landslide: 61% of popular vote and 90% of electoral vote against Barry Goldwater • Medicare:hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for people over 65 • Medicaid:extended health insurance to welfare recipients

  11. Domestic PolicySimilarities to the New Deal • Addressed economic and social ills, protecting the environment and consumers!

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