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2. US Presidents 1953 - 1977 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61)
John F. Kennedy ( )
Lyndon Johnson ( )
Richard Nixon ( )
Gerald Ford ( )

3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953 – 1961
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WWII
Election of 1952
Republican candidate versus Adlai Stevenson (Dem.)
Wins in landslide on policy of interventionism

4. Dwight D. Eisenhower ‘Dynamic conservatism’
Disengaged US from Korea (while maintaining strict anti- communist position)
Highway Act (1956)
Articulated the ‘domino theory’
Eisenhower Doctrine
Provided $1 billion in aid to S. Vietnam pre – war
Re-elected in 1956

5. John F. Kennedy 1961 – 1963 Election of 1960 Democratic nominee
Chose LBJ as running mate to gain support in South
Opposed Repub. Richard Nixon
First televised debates
Close pop. vote, but Kennedy wins electorate 303 to 219
First Catholic in White House!

6. John F. Kennedy Foreign Policy Domestic Assassination
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Cuban missile crisis (1962)
Escalated US’s role in Vietnam
Domestic
“New Frontier”
Expanded funding for education and social services
Presided over country’s first non-war, non-recession deficit
Proposed moon landing by end of decade (60s)
Assassination
Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in Nov. 1963

7. Lyndon Johnson
1963 – 1969
Sworn in on Air Force One in Nov after Kennedy assassination
‘Great Society’
Expand Civil Rights and social services
‘War on Poverty’
Civil Rights Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
Immigration and Nationality Act 1965

8. Lyndon B. Johnson Foreign Policy
Escalated involvement in Vietnam (beginning 1964)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Failing support as war and violence at home (race riots) increase
Watts (1965)
MLK Assassination Riots (1968)

9. Richard Nixon 1969 – 1974 1968 Election ‘New Federalism’
Repub. Nixon wins over Hubert Humphrey
‘New Federalism’
Give power to the states (few of policies enacted)
Integration of US public schools
Re-elected 1972

10. Richard Nixon Pulls US out of Vietnam (1973)
Enacts policy of détente with Soviets
Watergate
Orchestrated spying on political opponents
Spiro Agnew (VP) resigns 1973
Nixon resigns in 1974 under certain impeachment

11. Gerald Ford Republican Served remainder of Nixon’s term Pardoned Nixon
Faced high inflation in US economy
Passed “Education for All Handicapped Children” bill in 1975
Continued Nixon’s policy of détente with Soviets
Loses election of 1976 to Jimmy Carter (Democrat)