1. Kennedy and Johnson Social Programs

2. Kennedy – Nixon Debates
Comes off to the over 70 million as confident, spry, young, intelligent.
Wins election by narrowest of margins

3. New Frontier Kennedy encourages people to become ‘pioneers’
Has good ideas, but cannot get them through Congress
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress
Problems in the South
Poverty Problem

5. What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal
What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

6. Inauguration and the Memorable Address

7. The First ‘Television President’

8. LBJ and the “Great Society”

9. The Great Society Congress passes the $10 billion tax cut
This spurs growth:
People spend more money 
Businesses bring in more money 
Businesses pay more taxes for what they are selling
the government deficit alleviated slightly

10. Civil Rights Act 1964 Prohibits discrimination based on:
Race
Religion
National Origin
Sex/Gender
Grants the government
new powers to enforce
these provisions

11. Economic Opportunity Act
Fights the War on Poverty
Approves $1 billion for various projects
JobCorps Youth Training Program
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
Project Headstart
Underprivileged preschoolers
Community Action Program
Poor people working in public-works programs

12. Education
Elementary and Secondary education Act of 1965 and 1966 provided $1 billion in funding to schools
Purchase textbooks and new library materials
Higher Education Act
Funded scholarships and low interest loans
National Foundation of Arts and Humanities
Assist artists of the day

13. Various Other Programs
Immigration Act of 1965 – ends quotas based on ethnicity/nationality
Environment
Consumer Protection
Healthcare
Housing

14. Supreme Court Rulings- “The Warren Court”
Brown v. Board of Education- 1954
Engel v. Vitale - Prayer in public schools is banned
Mapp v. Ohio (illegal evidence)
Gideon v. Wainwright (free counsel)
Miranda v. Arizona- Read their rights
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District – free speech in schools (Allowed people to protest the Vietnam War)

15. Impact of the Great Society
Poverty level drop 10% in 11 years
Tax cut spurs economy
Federal deficit grows
Heavily contested: Too much government interference??
Conservatives don’t like it