JFK, LBJ & NixonJFK, LBJ & Nixon1961-19741961-1974

Created by Mr.

Johnson

Objective• 11.06 – Identify political events &

the actions and reactions of the government officials and citizens, and assess the social and political consequences.

Terms & Concepts• Voter apathy

• New Frontier

• Peace Corps

• Great Society

• HUD

• Head Start

• VISTA

• Medicare

• National Endowment for the Humanities

• Robert F. Kennedy

• 1968 Democratic Convention

• Watergate scandal

• Sam Ervin/Senate Watergate Committee

• Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

• John Dean

• U.S. v. Nixon (1974)

• 25th Amendment

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Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 1960

Video of the debate

Election of 1960• 11.06 -

“Camelot”

Kennedy’s Inaugural Address“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

JFK’s “New Frontier”• Civil Rights

−Federal marshals (James Meredith & Freedom Riders)

−Equal Housing Act

• Women−Equal Pay Act

• Peace Corps

• Apollo Program

JFK’s Cold War Policy• Latin America -

Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Alliance for Progress

• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

• Vietnam – Advisors, withdrawal(?)

Assassination

Click here for video

LBJ Takes the Oath of Office

Lee Harvey Oswald• US Marine…

Soviet Union

• Attempted assassination of Gen. Edwin Walker

• Assassination of JFK−Killing of Police

Officer Tippit−Killed by Jack Ru

by

Funeral

Eternal Flame

25th Amendment• Chain of

presidential succession

• Response to JFK assassination & nuclear threat

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1964 Election

LBJ’s “War on Poverty”• “Great Society”

−Education−Healthcare−Housing−Immigration

LBJ’s “Great Society”• New Deal-

style reforms

• “Welfare State”Click here for video

“The Johnson Treatment”

HUD• Low

income housing projects

• “Urban renewal”

Head Start• Pre-K for low-

income children

Food Stamps

VISTA• Volunteers

in Service to America

• “Domestic Peace Corps”

NEH• National

Endowment for the Humanities−Art,

culture & history

−Education & public radio/TV

Medicare• Health

insurance for seniors

Medicaid• Health

care for low income people

LBJ & Civil Rights• 1964 Civil

Rights Act

• 1965 Voting Rights Act

• 24th Amendment

• Appointed Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court

LBJ’s Cold War Policy• Vietnam War

−“Domino Theory”−1964 – Tonkin Gulf

Resolution (“Blank Check”)

−1965 – Operation Rolling Thunder… Escalation

−1968 – Tet Offensive

• Support for Israel vs. Arab countries

The Costs of Vietnam“If I left the woman I really loved-the Great Society - in order to get involved in that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home… But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser and we would both find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe."

-Lyndon B. Johnson

19681968

Tet Offensive

“I Shall Not Seek……and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

LBJ Steps Aside

MLK Assassination

“I May Not Get There With You”

Assassination – April 4, 1968

Assassination Riots

Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the King assassination

Robert F. Kennedy• Democratic

presidential candidate

• Called for immediate end to Vietnam War

• Assassination – June 4, 1968

Sirhan Sirhan• RFK assassin

• Christian Arab from Jordan

Democratic Convention

Candidates of 1968

Richard Nixon

Republican

Hubert Humphrey

Democrat

George Wallace

American Independent

“Law & Order”

Republican “Southern Strategy”• “State’s

rights”…

• Split working-class whites away from blacks

• New “Solid South” is Republican

End of New Deal Coalition

1968 Election

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Nixon’s Foreign Policy

Nixon’s Domestic Policy• “New Federalism”

• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• “War on Drugs” begins

• 1973 Yom Kippur War− OPEC Embargo− Energy Crisis− “Stagflation”

• Apollo 11 Moon landing

• Leak Scandals− Pentagon Papers− COINTELPRO− Watergate

EPA

OSHA

War on Drugs

Apollo 11

1973 Yom Kippur War

1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

Pentagon Papers Leak

COINTELPRO

The “Plumbers”

1972 Election

Watergate Hotel Burglary

The Break-In

Patrick Grey• Nixon-appointed

director of the FBI

• Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation

Woodward & Bernstein

John Dean• White House

counsel

• “Mastermind of the cover-up”

• Testifies against Nixon

Spiro Agnew• Vice President

• Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

Watergate TapesClick here for video

Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

“Saturday Night Massacre”

Archibald Cox, special prosecutor

Elliot Richardson, Attorney General William

Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General

FiredFired

ResignedResigned

ResignedResigned

All Alone…

U.S. v. Nixon, 1974

Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive

privilege”

Resignation

Nixon resigns

Ford’s Pardon• Controversial

decision

• Allowed the nation to “move on”

Distrust & Voter Apathy

Gil Scott-Heron

“H2OGate Blues” + lyrics