Johnson – Domestic Policy• Great Society• Office of Economic Opportunity

• Operation Head Start• Job Corps• Neighborhood Youth Corps• Upward Bound• Model Cities Program

Johnson – Domestic Policy• Department of Housing and Urban Development

• Department of Transportation• Medicare• Medicaid• Elementary and Secondary Education Act• National Endowment for the Arts

Johnson – Domestic Policy• Water Quality Act• Clean Air Act• “Truth in Lending”• “Truth in Advertising”• Immigration Reform• Civil Rights• Voting Rights Act of 1965• Civil Rights Act of 1968

Johnson – Foreign Policy• Vietnam• Growing involvement• Parties to War• USS Maddox• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution• Rolling Thunder• Pacification• Escalation• Tet Offensive

1968• MLKJ Assassination• RFK Assassination• Race Riots• LBJ Quits• DNC Convention & Riots in Chicago• Nixon, Nixon, Nixon

Nixon - Vietnam• “Peace with Honor”• Vietnamization• My Lai Massacre• Cambodia• Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail• Protests• Kent State Shootings

• Pentagon Papers• Paris Peace Accords

Nixon – Détente• “Cooling off”• “Opening” China• Bipolar to Tripolar• Soviet Union• SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty)

Nixon - Domestic• Inflation• 90 Day Wage & Price Freeze

• Created EPA• Reelected in ’72• OPEC Embargo – Yom Kippur War• 26th Amendment

Nixon – Watergate• Break-in and DNC HDQ• Members of Creep implicated• Continued Investigation (>1 Year)• Senate • Washington Post

• Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein• Nixon Advisors Implicated• Revelation of Secret Taping System

Nixon - Watergate• Senate Investigation subpoenaed tapes• Nixon Refused – released edited tapes• Supreme Court (9-0) sided with Senate• “Smoking Gun” – cover-up the crime• House passes three articles of impeachment (7/30/74)

• Nixon Resigns (8/9/74)