JFK, LBJ & Nixon Created by Mr. Johnson

Objective – 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) 25 th Amendment

Kennedy

Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 1960 Video of the debate

Election of

“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 Ruby Killed by Jack Ruby

Funeral

Eternal Flame

25 th Amendment Chain of presidential succession Response to JFK assassination & nuclear threat

Johnson

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 24 th 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

1968

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, 1968Assassination – June 4, 1968

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

Nixon

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 Tapes Click here for video

Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

“Saturday Night Massacre” Archibald Cox, special prosecutor Elliot Richardson, Attorney General William Ruckleshaus, Deputy Attorney General Fired Resigned Resigned

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” + lyricslyrics