1. LBJ and the “Great Society.”

2. Warm Up Turn and Talks!
Should the government spend taxpayer’s money to help people? If so, which people? Are there any situations where people shouldn’t be helped?

3. How do we know if a government program works?2.
How do we know if a government program works?

4. Anecdotal and data based.
3. Two types of evidence.
Anecdotal and data based.

5. Can we fix education by spending more money?

6. Can we fix poverty by spending money?

7. Background
LBJ grew up in Texas during the Depression and had seen first hand the help the New Deal Programs brought to his state.
He got into the House of Representatives in 1937, and soon won a Senate seat.
He idolized FDR and his domestic programs and modeled most of his domestic policy platforms after FDR’s New Deal.
Kennedy chose him as his running-mate to help him secure more votes in the South.

8. Early Success
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, got his domestic agenda rolling.
He was influential in convincing Southern Senators to pass it.
He then moved onto his personal domestic agenda, which he dubbed the “War on Poverty.”

9. Economic Opportunity Act (EOA).
Created the Job Corps Youth Training Program
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
Project Head Start- preschool for people in poverty.
Community Action Program which encouraged poor people to participate in their communities.
All these programs are designed to provide training and foster engagement in America’s poorest communities.

10. Election of 1964.
Republicans run a very conservative candidate, Barry Goldwater, from Arizona.
He was against the government getting involved with lifting people out of poverty.
He thought Social Security should be voluntary.
He said, if needed, he would nuke North Korea and Cuba.
He won 52 Electoral Votes. Johnson won 486.

11. Johnson’s Mandate
His huge victory gave him a lot of leverage with Congress. He goes to work on what he deems his “Great Society” program.
He wanted to change American society to make the American Dream available for everyone, and to raise everyone out of poverty, by government intervention if need be.

12. What did he do? Got Congress to pour millions into Public Education.
Created Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare is cheap health insurance for the 65 and older, Medicaid is health insurance for welfare recipients.
Housing- Congress appropriated money to built affordable housing (HUD) the Housing and Urban Development.
Immigration- The Immigration Act of 1965 undid many of the immigration quotas left over from the 1920’s and opened up immigration to many more non-Europeans.

13. Con’t.
Environment- Water Quality Act of 1965, required states to clean up their rivers that were polluted from chemical factories.
Consumer Protection- Truth-in-packaging laws that set standard for labeling consumer goods.
Wholesome Meat Act of improved quality of meat sold by companies.

14. The Warren Court
Justice Earl Warren was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at this time and the court carried out many liberal reforms.
It banned prayer in public school, limited the power of communities to censor books and films.
They ruled on reapportionment- redrawing Congressional voter maps to better even out the power between rural and urban areas.

15. More decisions
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) ruled that evidence seized illegally could not be used in state courts.
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)- required states to provide legal representation to those who cannot afford it.
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)- an accused person has the right to have a lawyer present during their questioning by police.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) accused must be read their rights.