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1 The Great Society & Foreign Policy
LBJ The Great Society & Foreign Policy

2 The Great Society Problems addressed by programs: Poverty Healthcare
Civil Rights Urban Development

3 Ability to get things done…
Picked up where Kennedy left off The “Johnson treatment” Consensus Passed great deal of policies because of Democratic majority & Southern appeal

4 War on Poverty Economic Opportunity Act Youth programs
Anti-poverty measures Small-business loans Job training

5 Dept of Housing & Urban Development
240,000 housing units $2.9 billion for urban renewal HUD Secretary Robert C Weaver (1st African American cabinet member in U.S. History)

6 Education Programs Elementary/ Secondary Education Act (1965)
Higher Education Act (student loans, college tuition waivers, etc.) Head Start

7 Health & Welfare Medicare Health insurance for elderly (SS) Medicaid
Health insurance for low income families

8 Immigration Act of 1965 Discontinued national origins system from the 1920s 1st come, 1st serve More than doubled immigration (Asia & L.A.)

9 Civil Rights (very briefly)
Most successes attributed to LBJ’s administration 24th Amendment (abolished Poll Tax) Civil Rights Bill of 1964 Forbade segregation (interstate commerce) Title VII (no discrimination in workplace)

10 Civil Rights (very briefly)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 740,000 blacks registered to vote within 3 years Affirmative Action Civil Rights Act of 1968 Most comprehensive Civil Rights legislation

11 LBJ FOREIGN POLICY

12 Vietnam Vietnam overshadows all LBJ’s foreign policies
Cold War commitments become full blown war Political criticism Success/failure still debated

13 Legacy Immediate effects of social programs small
Eventually a large impact Still controversial!!!

14 Elections Landslide win in 1964
Does not even run in 1968 (because of Vietnam)


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