1. The Sixties

2. 1960 Election
LBJ running mate
Kennedy won because of his impressive show on the first national T.V. debate.

3. Richard Nixon Henry Cabot Lodge running mate.
Lost by only 118,000 votes.

6. Key Notes Dean Rusk – Sec. of State Robert McNamara – Sec. of Defense
Robert Kennedy – Attorney General
23 amendment – District of Columbia legal to vote
24 amendment – forbade poll tax

7. New Frontier Kennedy promised “to get American moving again”.
Idea was to improve the lives of all Americans.
Problems: unemployment, cold war tension, missile gap, sluggish economy, foreign aid, and civil rights.

8. Kennedy’s Legislation
The majority of his proposed bills passed
Many unemployment and welfare bills
Social Security increases and included crippled children
Food-stamps reintroduced
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Equal Pay for Equal Work (Women’s Rights)

9. Peace Corps
Idea came from Hubert Humphrey in 1960.

10. Plan was to send men and women overseas to do volunteer work in underdeveloped countries that requested American aid.

11. Immigration Act of 1965
The Immigration Act of 1924 had severely limited immigration
Contained the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924
Allowed more immigrants into the US
Abolished immigration quotas on specific countries

12. New Frontier Partial Success
Problems: Medicare, aid to education, new civil rights acts.
Successes: space program, nuclear test ban treaty, build up nuclear might, peace corps, prosperity had returned to U.S.
Future Problems: war in Vietnam, civil rights at home.

13. Kennedy Assassination
November 22, 1963 President John Kennedy and wife went to Texas to help repair the Democratic party in Texas.

14. The Events 10:00 a.m. loaded Air Force One in Washington, DC.
11:37 a.m. arrived at Love Field in Dallas, travel in 12 car motorcade through downtown Dallas.

15. The Shots
12:30 as the motorcade passes the Texas Schools Book Depository.
1st Shot hit Kennedy in the neck
2nd shot hits Texas governor in right shoulder.

16. Death 3rd shot hits Kennedy in head 2:20 p.m. Kennedy pronounced dead.
2:37 p.m. Johnson sworn in. (EST)

19. Arrest Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and questioned.
Late Friday was arraigned for murder.
Sunday morning Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.

21. Warren Commission
Chief Justice Earl Warren headed the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald operated alone and from his own motives.
Few events in history so deeply shock an entire society.
The search for people to examine its conscience and to search for its lost ideas went on for the rest of the decade.

22. HSCA
United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations
Believed that it was part of an assassination conspiracy

23. Johnson Takes Over
Nov. 27, 1963 – asked Congress for support and pledges to continue Kennedy’s programs.

24. War on Poverty Spring 1964 – Senate unlocks tax bill
Johnson pledges “war on poverty” pushes ten step program.
Special fund to retain workers displaced by computers
Job Corps camps
Vista
Community Action Program
Head Start

25. 1964 Election Republican Candidate – Barry S. Goldwater
VP – William Miller
Limited role of government

26. Lyndon Johnson
Johnson broad social concern together with his ability to get action out of congress, gave the Democrats a landslide victory.

27. VP – Running mate – Hubert Humphrey Johnson spoke of a “Great Society”
Meant an end to poverty and an end to racial injustice, plus tax cuts
Johnson passed: Medicare, federal aid to education and new civil rights bills.

28. Killed by Sirhan Sirhan after winning the California primary.
1968 Election
Eugene McCarthy – liberal, sole platform to end the war
Robert Kennedy – supported by blacks, women and students.
Killed by Sirhan Sirhan after winning the California primary.

29. Continues a long string of Kennedy’s suffering.
Assassination
Continues a long string of Kennedy’s suffering.

30. Vietnam war caused him the most trouble
Hubert Humphrey
Johnson’s VP
Vietnam war caused him the most trouble
At the start he defended the unpopular administration policy.
Later called for a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam.

31. George Wallace collected 45 electoral votes. Platform: Law and Order
Third Party
George Wallace collected 45 electoral votes.
Platform: Law and Order
Only 260,000 difference out of 71 million votes.

32. Democratic Convention
Thousands of anti-war protestors descended on the city of Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley attacked protestors
Inside the convention hall was bedlam
Cal. & N.Y. protested the nomination of Humphrey.
There was a full scale war outside the hall, police battled the demonstrated.

33. Richard Nixon Republican VP to Eisenhower
Running Mate: Spiro Theodore Agnew
Promised to restore “Law and Order”
Pledged to end the draft