Johnson
How Johnson became President
- Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX
- sworn in on a waiting airplane
Election of 1964
- November 3, 1964
- Democratic
- Hubert Humphrey
- Barry Goldwater
- Johnson: 61.1% Goldwater: 38.5%
The Great Society
- Johnson's political agenda or platform, aimed to transform American life
- main points include:
- aid to education
- medical care for poor and elderly
- immigration reform
- voting rights bill
24th Amendment
- ratified January 1964
- "Freedom Summer" of 1964
- abolished poll tax in federal elections
Tonkin Gulf Resolution and Vietnam War
- lawmakers virtually gave up their war-declaring power and handed the president a blank check to use further force in Southeast Asia
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Tet Offensive
Johnson's Civil Rights
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
1968-A "watershed" year
- Robert Kennedy
- Black Power
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Tet Offensive
- Vietnam War
- Apollo 8