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1960s: Domestic Affairs

1960s: Domestic Affairs. Remember! Debate over how much federal government involvement there should be. Progressive Era WW I 1920s Great Depression – NEW DEAL WW II. 1960 Presidential Election.

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1960s: Domestic Affairs

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  1. 1960s: Domestic Affairs Remember! Debate over how much federal government involvement there should be. Progressive Era WW I 1920s Great Depression – NEW DEAL WW II

  2. 1960 Presidential Election

  3. Republicans campaign on being tough on communism (Dems let China fall!) and JFK’s inexperience • Democrats run on “getting the economy started again” and falling behind the Russians

  4. JFK’s “New Frontier” “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!” Extend unemployment Minimum wage Food Stamp program Mortgage loans Health care for elderly

  5. JFK and Civil Rights On the one hand, JFK personally supported the Civil Rights program. - G-boro Sit-ins - Freedom Riders - Integration of universities (AL & MS) - March on Washington BUT, he needed white southern Democrats to support him. - Defeat of the Civil Rights Bill of 1963

  6. “Full Retaliatory Response”

  7. DEFCON-2

  8. American University Speech, 1963 • LTBT (Limited Test Ban Treaty) • Hotline between Kremlin and White House

  9. November, 1963

  10. From VP to President

  11. The Liberal Promise

  12. The Great Society • Civil Rights • War on Poverty • Economic Opportunity Act (Appalachia) • Food Stamps • Heath Care (Medicare; Medicaid) • Education Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) • Head Start

  13. A War On Poverty

  14. Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

  15. GUNS v. BUTTER Vietnam War (Cold War) Great Society

  16. “I will neither seek nor accept the nomination…”

  17. Retirement

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