Sixties
Liberalism
Resurgent
Liberalism
Earl Warren Court
Kennedy’s “New Frontier”
Election of 1960
Kennedy v. Nixon
Televised debates
Eisenhower’s role
Results: Kennedy 303 / 49.9%
Nixon 219 / 49.6%
Cold Warrior
Social Reform
Reasons for ineffectiveness
Assassination
Lyndon
Johnson and the “Great Society”
Career
Uses of Kennedy’s “legacy”
Support for Civil Rights
“One Man, One Vote”
Election of 1965
Johnson v. Goldwater
“hand up, not a hand out”
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Community Action
Office of Economic Opportunity
Jobs Corps
VISTA
23rd Amendment – Washington,
DC
24th Amerndment – Abolished
Poll Tax
Significant Parts of the
Great Society
Head
start
Medicare,
1965
Department
of Housing and Urban Development
National
Endowment of the Arts and Humanities
Air
Quality Act
Higher
Education Act
Medicaid,
1966
National
Traffic and Motor Safety Act
Department
of Transportation
Food
Stamps
Corporation
for Public Broadcasting