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LBJ's Great Society: Domestic Progress and Foreign Policy Challenges

Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice while promoting education and healthcare reforms. Building on Kennedy's legacy, LBJ implemented significant policies like the Economic Opportunity Act and Civil Rights Acts, resulting in millions of families receiving aid, increased voter registration among African Americans, and crucial healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. However, the Vietnam War overshadowed these social initiatives, leading to political division and controversy over Johnson's legacy. His achievements and failures continue to spur debate in American history.

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LBJ's Great Society: Domestic Progress and Foreign Policy Challenges

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  1. LBJ The Great Society & Foreign Policy

  2. The Great Society • Problems addressed by programs: • Poverty • Healthcare • Civil Rights • Urban Development

  3. Ability to get things done… • Picked up where Kennedy left off • The “Johnson treatment” • Consensus • Passed great deal of policies because of Democratic majority & Southern appeal

  4. War on Poverty • Economic Opportunity Act • Youth programs • Anti-poverty measures • Small-business loans • Job training

  5. Dept of Housing & Urban Development • 240,000 housing units • $2.9 billion for urban renewal • HUD Secretary • Robert C Weaver (1st African American cabinet member in U.S. History)

  6. Education Programs • Elementary/ Secondary Education Act (1965) • Higher Education Act (student loans, college tuition waivers, etc.) • Head Start

  7. Health & Welfare • Medicare • Health insurance for elderly (SS) • Medicaid • Health insurance for low income families

  8. Immigration Act of 1965 • Discontinued national origins system from the 1920s • 1st come, 1st serve • More than doubled immigration (Asia & L.A.)

  9. Civil Rights (very briefly) • Most successes attributed to LBJ’s administration • 24th Amendment (abolished Poll Tax) • Civil Rights Bill of 1964 • Forbade segregation (interstate commerce) • Title VII (no discrimination in workplace)

  10. Civil Rights (very briefly) • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • 740,000 blacks registered to vote within 3 years • Affirmative Action • Civil Rights Act of 1968 • Most comprehensive Civil Rights legislation

  11. LBJ FOREIGN POLICY

  12. Vietnam • Vietnam overshadows all LBJ’s foreign policies • Cold War commitments become full blown war • Political criticism • Success/failure still debated

  13. Legacy • Immediate effects of social programs small • Eventually a large impact • Still controversial!!!

  14. Elections • Landslide win in 1964 • Does not even run in 1968 (because of Vietnam)

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