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New Frontier
and Great Society
Section 18.1
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Style or Substance?Which is more important in making an effective president?
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Describe Kennedy as President.• Inaugural address
– A statement that the young were taking control
– Vigorous, energetic, bold
– Hawkish
• In Practice
– Slow, cautious to initiate new legislation
– Why?
• Lacked a mandate
– Election was slim
– Not a clear endorsement of his ideas
• Conservative Congress
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What was the New Frontier?• Kennedy’s personal domestic
progressive program
• Not an organized set of new laws (like the New Deal)
• Included legislation for public schools, wilderness preservation, infrastructure, medical insurance for elderly
• Invigorated the liberals
– Had become complacent with the economic prosperity of the 1950s
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What is meant by describing JFK’s Administration as “Camelot”?
• Seemed Royal, like a King
• JFK and Jackie (his wife) were elegant, stylish, and good looking
• Cultivated this image on TV, magazines
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Describe Kennedy’s Working Style:• Surrounded himself w/ highly educated advisers
– Called the “best and the brightest”
• Pragmatic– Called himself “A Practical Idealist”
– Did what worked rather than what liberal ideology wished
• Visionary
– Set goal of landing man on moon for NASA
• John Glenn-= 1st American to orbit earth (2/62)
• Peace Corps
– Volunteers sent to developing countries to assist in education, building
» 80 thousand sent to 88 nations
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Describe his Assassination:
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Describe his Assassination:
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Describe his Assassination. • JFK went to Dallas, TX to
begin campaigning for ’64 election
• Shot twice as he rode in open car
• Lee Harvey Oswald– Ex Marine, communist,
Cuba sympathizer – Shot from 6th floor of Dallas
Book Depository– Arrested in movie theater– Assassinated by Jack Ruby
at police station
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Zapruder Film
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Zapruder Slow Motion
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What was the Warren Commission and why were its findings controversial?
• Investigative committee headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren
• Concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassination
• Controversial– Why?
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• Difficult shot – 3 shots in 6 seconds
• Zapruder film – Made it look like shot
came from “Grassy Knoll”
• “Magic Bullet”– Developed by Arlen
Specter to explain how both JFK and Gov. Connally were hit
• Seemed impossible• Oswald assassinated by
Jack Ruby (nightclub owner)– Mob hit?
What was the Warren Commission and why were its findings controversial?
Cubans? Texas oil men?
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Oswald Assassinated
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How did the nation react to the assassination?
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How did the nation react to the assassination?• Shocked and devastated
–“Where were you when Kennedy was shot?”
• Shattered hopes of many
–African Americans
–Liberal idealists
• Camelot image of fallen hero became legendary
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The End of Camelot
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Describe Lyndon Baines Johnson’s style as president.
• Opposite of Kennedy– Crude, intimidating,
unpolished– Experienced Southerner
(Texas)• Coalition Builder
– “The Treatment”• Flattered or threatened
congressmen into voting for his proposals
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What was the Great Society?• LBJ’s continuation
and extension of JFK’s New Frontier program
• His vision for a just, fair society without poverty, racism, etc.
• Declared ‘war on poverty’
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What were some of the most important laws of the Great Society?
• Civil Rights Act of 1964/Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Economic Opportunity Act– Fed programs that fought
poverty• Medical Care Act
– Provided money for: • Medicare = Elderly • Medicaid = Poor
• Model Cities Act– Gave money to build housing,
recreational facilities, transportation for poor
– Created HUD
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Was the Great Society successful?• Poverty dropped:
– 1959= 22%– 1969= 12%
• Under funded– War in Vietnam began to steer
money away from programs, which continued regardless
– Liberal economists spoke of having ‘guns and butter’
• Resorted to deficit spending, which led in the 1970s to “double digit” inflation
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Criticism
• Did it create a welfare generation?
• Give a man a fish, feed him for a day
• Teach a man to fish, feed him for life….