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Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”
1963-1969
New Frontier (via LBJ)
• Passed tax cuts = econ. Growth by mid-60s• “War on Poverty” (championed by Michael
Harrington)• Gets Economic Opportunity Act Passed
(creates OEO= Office of Economic Opportunity)– Job Corps, VISTA, youth jobs, rural and urban
development, work-study programs, Head Start
• Gets Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed– EEOC = no job discrimination– Title VII = no discrimination against sex! (women = )
Escalating Vietnam
1964 Election
• Daisy ad?
• (click on image for commerical)
“Great Society”
Medicare and Medicaid
HUD (Housing and Urban Development)
National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities
• PBS
• NPR
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
• $ 1 Billion in fed. Funds to benefit poor children
• Also, next year, Higher Education Act – fed. Scholarships for college
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
• Ended quotas (First major immigration act, and reversed, the 1924 (National Origins Act, which had limmited people from certain countries, dating back to 1890 quotas)
• 20k in per country• “refugees”• EFFECT = high volume immigration, more
immigrants from Korea, China, Phil., Dom. Rep., Cambodia and Middle East
Dominican Republic
The Rise and Fall of Vietnam and LBJ
Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Fair Housing Act – sought to eliminate racial discrimination in the real estate market.
• trying to end de facto segregation via residential housing patterns
• (some areas never seemed to have any blacks living there? I wonder why?)
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Great Society?
• Believed to cut Poverty in 1/3rd• Incredible spending by govt.• Created continued debate over federal powers
expanding (more of the New Deal?)• “show down on the battlefields of Vietnam” –
MLK, Jr. • Great success with Civil Rights Acts• Ultimate, irony is the Vietnam War ended up
costing LBJ the “Great Society”!