President Lyndon B. Johnson
Shane Odom
The "Election"
After President Kennedy was assassinated the presidential duties fell to Johnson who was inaugurated on Air Force One on November 22, 1963. Johnson ran again in the 1964 election in which he was the democratic elect and Barry Goldwater was the republican. LBJ won by nearly double Goldwater's votes, 61.1% to 38.5%
The Great Society
-Largest reform agenda since FDR's New Deal
-Passed JFK's civil rights bill
-Medicare lowered the cost of healthcare for the elderly
-Attacked poverty with the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
-Saved 9.1 million acres of land in the Wilderness Protection Act
-Helped disadvantaged children going into preschool with Head Start
-Vista, Volunteers In Service of America, applied in poverty riddled regions of America
24th Amendment
Prohibited Congress and the state representatives from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax. Ratified on January 23, 1964.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the Vietnam War
-Enacted on August 10, 1964.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Outlawed discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin
-Signed into law on June 2, 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
-Outlawed discrimination in voting based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin
-Signed into law on August 6, 1965