J.F.K’s New Frontier to L.B.J’s

Great Society

• 35th President of the U.S., 1961-63• Served in WWII• Senator from Massachusetts• Popular president

• 35th President of the U.S., 1961-63• Served in WWII• Senator from Massachusetts• Popular president

ACHIEVEMENTS / EVENTS• New Frontier

• Space race---put a man on the moon• Berlin Wall built

• Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp• Cuban Missile Crisis

• U.S. involvement in Vietnam• Negotiates first nuclear test ban treaty with Soviets

• Assassinated, Nov. 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald?

Kennedy's New Frontier Domestic Program

• Federal funding for education• Medical care for the elderly• Government intervention to halt the

recession with tax cuts. • End to racial discrimination. • Established

• Alliance for Peace and Peace Corps to help Third World countries• President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to end racial discrimination in hiring

of govt employees.

New Frontier impossible to complete• Due to conservative Congress. • Disappointed many civil rights activists = feared splitting Democratic Party.• New Frontier ideas led to President Johnson's "Great Society"

Kennedy's New Frontier Domestic Program

• Federal funding for education• Medical care for the elderly• Government intervention to halt the

recession with tax cuts. • End to racial discrimination. • Established

• Alliance for Peace and Peace Corps to help Third World countries• President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to end racial discrimination in hiring

of govt employees.

New Frontier impossible to complete• Due to conservative Congress. • Disappointed many civil rights activists = feared splitting Democratic Party.• New Frontier ideas led to President Johnson's "Great Society"

Kennedy’s Campaign for Medicare

Basis of Medicare Men 65 years & older & women 62

years & older can receive assistance

Also the disabled can receive help Working people should start

contributing now Inspired by & eventually tied to

the Social Security system

lbj sworn in

November 22, 1963

Dallas, TX

Major Events• Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Rights Act, 1964 • Voting Rights Act, 1965

• War On Poverty = "Great Society" • Anti-Poverty Act, 1964 • Education reform

• Cold War = US involvement in Vietnam

Major Events• Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Rights Act, 1964 • Voting Rights Act, 1965

• War On Poverty = "Great Society" • Anti-Poverty Act, 1964 • Education reform

• Cold War = US involvement in Vietnam

LBJ’s State of the Union Address LBJ wants to cut the deficit in

½ Wants to reduce the size of

the gov’t while maintaining the size of the military

LBJ pledges to assist the less fortunate“THE GREAT SOCIETY” Declares war on poverty Medicare/Medicad Assistance to the inner cities

& rural areas Unemployment assistance &

Job creation programs Education Assistance

Tax Cuts to stimulate the economy

Modernization of schools, libraries, hospitals, & nursing homes

LBJ’s Remarks at the University of Michigan:

(May 22, 1964) Next Generation’s

challenge = solve the problem of poverty

American need to build a “Great Society”

abundance and liberty for all

three places to build the Great Society in our cities in our countryside in our classrooms

Major Great Society Programs

War on Poverty: forty programs that were

intended to eliminate poverty by improving living conditions and

enabling people to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty. HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBANDEVELOPMENT ACT FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1964 URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION

Johnson & the War on Poverty

Improving Education

Education: sixty separate bills that provided for new and better-equipped

classrooms, minority scholarships, and low-interest student loans. HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT of

1968 Head Start: program for four-

and five-year-old children from low-income families.

HEALTHCARE:MEDICARE AND

MEDICAID Medicare & Medicaid:

guaranteed health care to every American over sixty-five and to low-income families.

Medicare was eventually passed during the LBJ administration

It was first passed on July 30, 1965 It served as an amendment to Social

Security

Environment and the Arts

The Environment: introduced measures to protect clean air and water. CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1963

National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: government funding for artists, writers and performers. NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS & THE HUMANITIES ACT

GREAT SOCIETY

5min LBJ Great Soc