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 26 th 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)