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Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ. President: 1963-1968 Political Party: Democrat Vice President: Hubert Humphrey. LBJ The Presidents. Civil Rights Vietnam War Great Society. Legacy inherited by LBJ. 2 July 1964: Pres. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ President: 1963-1968 Political Party: Democrat Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
LBJ The Presidents • Civil Rights • Vietnam War • Great Society
Legacy inherited by LBJ 2 July 1964: Pres. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Voting: illegal to apply different standards to black and white applicants – literacy • Public accommodations: law forbade discrimination in most public restaurants, hotels, motels, lunch counters retail stores, theaters and sports arenas • Public Facilities: law forbade discrimination in government owned or operated parks, swimming pools, and libraries • Federally Assisted Programs: Government could withhold financial aid from state and local programs that involved discrimination • Employment: The law forbade discriminatory practices by employers, employment agencies and labor unions, the law created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Criminal to discriminate/affirmative Action
Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Notes in Civil Rights timeline!
Legacy inherited by LBJ 2 June 1965: Voting Rights Act 1965 passed by Congress • In any state where less than half of the voting age population were registered to vote, all literacy requirements were suspended • Atty. General was empowered to send in Federal examiners to any state where voter discrimination occurred to register all would be voters • Atty. General empowered to file suits challenging constitutionality of the state poll taxes
Foreign PolicyVietnam • Vietnam had been a French colony, and controlled by Japanese • Truman and Eisenhower sent aid after WWII • 1954 Geneva accords split Vietnam into North and South along the 17th parallel • Ho Chi Minh, led independence movement • Aided by South Vietnamese Viet Cong
Foreign PolicyGulf of Tonkin • North Vietnamese torpedoed boats and attacked an American Destroyer • LBJ asked Congress for: “all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the US and to prevent further aggression” • This gave LBJ broad military power
Foreign PolicyEscalation • March 1965 LBJ began sending troops to fight the Viet Cong & North Vietnamese. • Tens of thousands more troops sent • 61% of Americans supported this escalation.
War on Poverty Alleviate poverty Proposed legislation Economic Opportunity Act 1 billion dollars for youth programs Job Corps: Economic Opportunity Act VISTA Head Start Antipoverty measures CAP: Community Action Programs Domestic PolicyWar on Poverty = THE GREAT SOCIETY
Domestic Policy • 1964 Reelection landslide: 61% of popular vote and 90% of electoral vote against Barry Goldwater • Medicare:hospital insurance and low cost medical insurance for people over 65 • Medicaid:extended health insurance to welfare recipients
Domestic PolicySimilarities to the New Deal • Addressed economic and social ills, protecting the environment and consumers!