Politics of the 1960s

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Politics of the 1960s

• JFK, LBJ and Daisy the Peace Girl

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Eisenhowers Farewell

• 1953-1961
• Beware the military-industrial complex!

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Election of 1960

• Ikes tepid endorsement
• JFK Bio
• The Debates (TV!)

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JFK wins

• Blacks
• Women
• LBJ
• Fraud

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JFKs New Freedom

• Dont ask, okay?

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Domestic Policy Disaster

• All the advantages
• Losses minimum wage and education
• Losses Medicare, federal aid to education, tax
  revision, postal increase, long-term foreign aid

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Civil Defense Space

• Fallout Shelters
• Duck Cover
• NASA

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Keynesian Economics

• Unemployment rising
• Growth stagnant
• Enter John Maynard Keynes

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Foreign Policy

• WIN the Cold War
• Missile Gap
• Bargain from strength
• Overkill capacity

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Cuba Boondoggle

• Batista vs. Castro
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Brinksmanship

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Other Stuff

• Vietnam (next chapter)
• The Peace Corps!

Its not that I cant help these people, its
that I dont want to. Lawrence Bourne III
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Assassination

• Impact of TV
• Why in Dallas?
• The Sixties begin?

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Camelot

• The end of the innocence?

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LBJ

• LBJ Bio
• Stewardship

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The Decimation of Goldwater
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The Great Society

• Not much of an orator, but what words!

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One Hundred Days II

• Medicare
• Voting Rights Act 65
• HUD, Transportation
• Federal aid to schools
• Head Start
• Food stamps
• War on Poverty
• Urban Renewal

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A Dream Deferred

• The Great Society in ruins, LBJ retires, RFK
  killed
• Replaced by Nixons A Nation of Laws
• Evolution Populists, Progressives, New Deal,
  Great Society
• Role of government?