1. Created by Mr. Johnson
JFK, LBJ & Nixon

2. Objective
11.06 – Identify political events & the actions and reactions of the government officials and citizens, and assess the social and political consequences.

3. 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)
25th Amendment

4. Kennedy

5. Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 1960
Video of the debate

6. Election of 1960

7. “Camelot”

8. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

9. JFK’s “New Frontier” Civil Rights Women Peace Corps Apollo Program
Federal marshals (James Meredith & Freedom Riders)
Equal Housing Act
Women
Equal Pay Act
Peace Corps
Apollo Program

10. JFK’s Cold War Policy
Latin America - Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Alliance for Progress
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Vietnam – Advisors, withdrawal(?)

11. Assassination
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12. LBJ Takes the Oath of Office

13. 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

14. Funeral

15. Eternal Flame

16. 25th Amendment Chain of presidential succession
Response to JFK assassination & nuclear threat

17. Johnson

18. 1964 Election

19. LBJ’s “War on Poverty” “Great Society” Education Healthcare Housing
Immigration

20. LBJ’s “Great Society” New Deal-style reforms “Welfare State”
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21. “The Johnson Treatment”

22. HUD
Low income housing projects
“Urban renewal”

23. Head Start
Pre-K for low-income children

24. Food Stamps

25. VISTA
Volunteers in Service to America
“Domestic Peace Corps”

26. NEH National Endowment for the Humanities Art, culture & history
Education & public radio/TV

27. Medicare
Health insurance for seniors

28. Medicaid
Health care for low income people

29. LBJ & Civil Rights 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act
24th Amendment
Appointed Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court

30. 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

31. 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

32. 1968

33. Tet Offensive

34. “I Shall Not Seek…
…and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

35. LBJ Steps Aside

36. “I May Not Get There With You”
MLK Assassination
“I May Not Get There With You”
Assassination – April 4, 1968

37. Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the King assassination
Assassination Riots
Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on the King assassination

38. Robert F. Kennedy Democratic presidential candidate
Called for immediate end to Vietnam War
Assassination – June 4, 1968

39. Sirhan Sirhan
RFK assassin
Christian Arab from Jordan

40. Democratic Convention

41. Candidates of 1968 Richard Nixon Republican Hubert Humphrey Democrat
George Wallace
American Independent

42. “Law & Order”

43. Republican “Southern Strategy”
“State’s rights”…
Split working-class whites away from blacks
New “Solid South” is Republican

44. End of New Deal Coalition

45. 1968 Election

46. Nixon

47. Nixon’s Foreign Policy

48. 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

49. EPA

50. OSHA

51. War on Drugs

52. Apollo 11

53. 1973 Yom Kippur War

54. 1970s Energy Crisis: OPEC Embargo

55. 1970s Energy Crisis: Rationing

56. 1970s Energy Crisis: Oil Prices

57. 1970s Energy Crisis: Stagflation

58. Pentagon Papers Leak

59. COINTELPRO

60. The “Plumbers”

61. 1972 Election

62. Watergate Hotel Burglary
The Break-In

63. Patrick Grey Nixon-appointed director of the FBI
Destroyed FBI documents into the burglary investigation

64. Woodward & Bernstein

65. John Dean White House counsel “Mastermind of the cover-up”
Testifies against Nixon

66. Spiro Agnew
Vice President
Resigned for failure to pay income taxes

67. Watergate Tapes
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68. Sam Ervin & Senate Investigation

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

70. All Alone…

71. U.S. v. Nixon, 1974 Supreme Court rejected Nixon’s claim of “executive privilege”

72. Resignation
Nixon resigns

73. Ford’s Pardon
Controversial decision
Allowed the nation to “move on”

74. Distrust & Voter Apathy

75. “H2OGate Blues” + lyrics
Gil Scott-Heron
“H2OGate Blues” + lyrics