PPT-Johnson’s Great Society

Learning Objectives The Great Society What is LBJs Great Society Look at the handout What programs have you heard of And with your courage and with your compassion and your desire we will build a Great Society It is a Society where no child will go unfed and no youngster will go unschooled. Nixon/Kennedy Debate. First televised debate. Nixon not feeling well. Kennedy just came off a SOCAL campaign tour. Make-up Debate. Those who watched it. Kennedy. Those who listened. Nixon. Kennedy wins election. Mr. Daniel Lazar. Election of 1960. Bi-Elections . of . 1958. Dems . gained 15 Senate seats (62-34), 48 House seats (282-153) and . 6 . governorships . 1958 . recession, Republican policy of lowered farm price supports, labor opposition to state right-to-work . Living with Great Turmoil. Unit 6. Set up your Table of Contents. Daily Warm Up Pages (2). Daily Warm Up #1: Time Line . The New Frontier and the Great Society. List 5 of the 10 events on your US Timeline on pages 668-669. Chapter 23. JFK Shot. 11/23/1963, Kennedy & his wife traveled to TX with VP Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) for a series of political appearances. As the presidential motorcade rode slowly through the crowded streets of Dallas, gunfire rang out. U.S. HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY. CHAPTER 15. ELECTION OF 1960. New era of television politics takes place as the . 1. st. presidential debate . occurs on . September 26, 1960. . Political candidates used television . John F. Kennedy . & . Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as president of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy (right) witnesses the oath (November 22, 1963).. John F. Kennedy . & . Lyndon B. Johnson. The Promise of Progress. Kennedy’s Vision of Progress. • . New Frontier. —policies of the Kennedy administration. • JFK faces the same Republican-Southern Democrat coalition that blocked many of Truman’s attempts at policy-making. Kennedy’s “New Frontier” Spirit. President Kennedy. , the youngest president to take office, assembled one of the youngest cabinets, including his brother . Robert Kennedy. , the Attorney General, who planned to reform the priorities of the FBI.  Kennedy's new challenge of a ". Truman, Kennedy, Johnson. Harry Truman and the Fair Deal. The Fair Deal. In the . Election of 1948 . Southern Democrats had formed the State’s Rights Democratic Party (. Dixiecrats. ) and nominated their own candidate for president-South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond; Truman narrowly defeated Republican Thomas Dewey. Anti-poverty laws: War on Poverty (1964), food stamps (1964). Health care: Medicare (1965), Medicaid (1965). Other liberal aims. : model . cities, education, arts, environmentalism (1965). . President Johnson. The Stormy Sixties: 1960 – 1968 . Kennedy’s “New Frontier” Spirit. New Frontier – urban renewal, civil rights, health care . Cabinet:. Attorney General:. Brother Bobby. Defense:. Robert McNamara . Truman, Kennedy, Johnson. Harry Truman and the Fair Deal. The Fair Deal. In the . Election of 1948 . Southern Democrats had formed the State’s Rights Democratic Party (. Dixiecrats. ) and nominated their own candidate for president-South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond; Truman narrowly defeated Republican Thomas Dewey. Johnson admired Franklin Roosevelt who took the young congressman under his wing. Johnson became a senator in 1948 and by 1955 he was Senate majority leader. Senator Johnson pictured in 1958 . Johnson’s Background. Chapter 8:. Nov. 22, 1963, with Jacklyn Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson. 36. th. Pres. Of U.S.- Nov. 22, 1963- Jan. 20, 1969. Born 1908, Rural Poverty of Texas. Poverty and experience made him feel inferior to more educated politicians, felt they wouldn’t accept him .