LYNDON JOHNSON

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LYNDON JOHNSONTHE GREAT SOCIETY
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Background / Trivia

• Had represented Texas in Congress for 30 years
  before becoming JFKs VP
• He was 3 months old before his parents gave him a
  name
• Proposed to his wife on their first date!
• His entire family had initials LBJ
• Wife-Lady Bird Johnson
• Daughters-Luci Baines Johnson Linda Byrd
  Johnson
• Dog-Little Beagle Johnson
• All lived on the LBJ ranch in Texas
• He was known a Lightbulb Johnson in the White
  House (due to his habit of turning off all the
  lights when leaving a room grew up in
  Depression years)

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• Only P to witness the assassination of the P he
  succeeded
• Only P ever sworn into office on Air Force One
• At 63, our second tallest P
• Appointed the 1st black Supreme Court
• Justice, Thurgood Marshall
• Could be very crass, rude
• Many times held meetings with
• aides while on the toilet
• Habit of stripping in front of any-
• body jumping into White House pool
• Favorite saying was biblical Come, let us
  reason together.
• But meant that he would be physically
  intimidating in your face, grabbing jabbing
  -until one would agree with him

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LBJs 1st Address to Congress November 27, 1963

• Addresses Congress shortly after the death of JFK
• Vows to continue JFKs policies
• Peace Corps
• Space Program
• Civil Rights
• Commitment to West Berlin South Vietnam
• Asks for unity cooperation in pursuing JFKs
  goals
• Pledges support for the United Nations
• Urges the passage of the Civil Rights Bill

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Liberal Rulings of the Warren Court

• Engel v. Vitale, 1962
• decision outlawing mandatory school prayer
• Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
• required that all indigent criminal defendants
  receive publicly funded counsel (Florida law at
  time gave free counsel to indigent defendants
  only in capital cases)
• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
• Right against self-incrimination in any
  proceeding that could lead to a criminal charge
  not just at trial - starts with arrest!

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Miranda

• Multiple kidnapping/rape/robbery accusations
• Finally arrested and picked out of a line-up
• Confessed after 2 hrs. of police interrogation
• Had not been informed of his rights.
• The Supreme Court set aside Miranda's conviction,
  which was tainted by the use of the confession
  that had been obtained through improper
  interrogation. The state of Arizona retried him.
  At the second trial, his confession was not
  introduced into evidence, but he was convicted
  again anyway. He was sentenced to 20 to 30 years
  in prison.
• Miranda was paroled in 1972. After his release,
  he started selling autographed Miranda Warning
  cards for 1.50. Over the next years, Miranda
  was arrested numerous times for minor driving
  offenses and eventually lost the privilege to
  drive a car. He was arrested for the possession
  of a gun but the charges were dropped. But
  because this violated his parole he was sent back
  to Arizona State Prison for another year.
• After his release, Miranda spent most of his time
  in poorly kept bars and cheap hotels in rough
  sections of Phoenix. Miranda, then working as a
  delivery driver, participated in a card game at
  La Amapola Bar.
• On January 31, 1976, a violent fight broke out
  and Miranda received a mortal knife wound from a
  lettuce knife he was pronounced dead on arrival
  at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 34 years old.
• Police officers apprehended a male suspect
  shortly afterward and read him his Miranda rights
  from a small rectangular card, while another
  suspect involved in the murder fled to Mexico.

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Domestic Policyfor remainder of JFKs term

• A former New Dealer during FDRs time
• Declared a War on Poverty
• 20 of U.S. population 40 of blacks in poverty
• To give the poor an opportunity to improve
  themselves
• Uses national grief to push through JFKs Civil
  Rights bill which
• Bans discrimination in jobs, hotels, restaurants
  and voting
• Also pushed through Economic Opportunities Act
• Job Corps job training programs
• VISTA (volunteers much like Peace Corps but
  volunteer in impoverished areas in U.S.)
• Project Head Start (Pre-K for the poor)

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ELECTION OF 1964

• Republican BARRY GOLDWATER
• Platform
• Cutbacks in social security
• Cut TVA
• Opposed to integration
• Favors bombing of N. Vietnam
• Opposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963
• In your heart you know hes right.

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ELECTION OF 1964

• Democrat LYNDON JOHNSON
• VP Hubert Humphrey
• Something for everyone in the Great Society
• Promised NOT to escalate war in Vietnam
• Response to Goldwater In your gut you know
  hes nuts!

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Daisy Ad

• Is extremely effective
• Plays up Goldwater as trigger happy
• While viewing it, see how many times it mentions
  Goldwater

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License plate that had been used in 1963
promoting JFKs reelection in 1964
ELECTORAL RESULTS 1964
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LBJs Goals 1964

• LBJ wants to cut the deficit in ½
• Reduce the size of the govt but
• maintain the size of the military
• Tax Cuts to stimulate the economy, unemployment
  assistance job creation
• Modernization of schools, libraries, hospitals,
  nursing homes
• LBJ pledges to assist the less fortunate
  declares a War on Poverty
• Great Society abundance and liberty for all
• Three places to build the Great Society
• in our cities
• in our countryside
• in our classrooms

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Johnson the War on Poverty
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GREAT SOCIETY PROGRAMS

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• stopped literacy tests helped blacks get
  registered to vote

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MEDICARE ACT OF 1965

• Medicare is federal for hospital care of the
  elderly
• Medicaid is aid to the poor -- federal to
  states for medical expenses of the poor

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Elementary SecondaryEducation Act 1965

• Gave federal to schools for materials, medical
  exams, nutritious meals, etc.
• Note money went to the student, not the school,
  so even parochial schools received money under
  this Act
• However, performance of poor did not go up much
• LBJ likes to do things in a big way and goes back
  to Texas to his one-room schoolhouse and signs
  act seated with his first teacher, "Miss Kate"
  Deadrich

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APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT ACT 1965

• 1 Billion in aid for development of one of
  poorest regions of nation
• New roads, health centers, etc.

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IMMIGRATION ACT 1965

• For first time, puts limit on immigrants from
  Western hemisphere
• Basis for admission changes to job skills, need
  for asylum, families, etc. instead of national
  origin
• Major increase in Hispanic and Asian immigrants
• LBJ again likes to make a big display signs it
  at the Statue of Liberty

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HUD
Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Housing Urban Development Dept. created
• for reforms in urban areas

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GREAT SOCIETY ENDS DUE TO
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FRQ BRAINSTORM

• In what ways did the Great Society resemble the
  New Deal in its origins, goals and social and
  political legacy? Cite specific programs and
  policies in support of your arguments.