Lyndon Baines Johnson

Great Society

• War on Poverty

• Civil Rights

• Help for poor

• Head Start

• The Arts

Warren Court

• Thurgood Marshall

• Most significant in 20th c

• Rights of the accused

Vietnam

• 1945-1961

• 1961-1964

• 1964-1968

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Anti-war movement

1968

• What didn’t happen?

Richard M. Nixon

Vietnam

• Vietnamization • My lai massacre• Pentagon Papers• Cambodia• Kent State• 26th Amendment• 1973• 1975 • War Powers Act

Political Issues

• Conservative Backlash

• Southern Strategy

• Silent Majority

• Revenue sharing

• Environment

• Philadelphia Plan

• Oil

Cold War

• Détente

• Realpolitik

• China 1972

• Moscow 1972

• SALT I

Watergate

• Break-in DNH

• Obstruction of Justice v. Executive Power

• Resignation 1974

Imperial Presidency ?

FDR:

Truman:

Kennedy:

Johnson:

Nixon:

Congress Re-asserts Power

• War Powers Act

• Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act

• Federal Election Campaign Act

• Privacy Act

• End of “VITAL CENTER”

Gerald Ford

What Can I Say ?

• Pardoned Nixon

• Bicentennial

• Stagflation

• Helsinki Conference

Jimmy Carter

The Outsider

Southern Governor

Cold War

• SALT II

• Afghanistan

• 1980 Moscow

• 1984 Los Angeles

Foreign Policy

• Humanitarian Diplomacy

• Panama Canal

• Camp David Accords

• Iran Hostage Situation

Economy

• Stagflation

• Deregulation

• Oil Crisis

• Dept. of Energy

• Three Mile Island

Domestic Issues

• 1 term

• ERA

• Title IX

Ronald Reagan

1980’s Political Issues

• Core conservative issues• “New Right”• Moral Majority• Reaganomics• Culture War• Deregulation • Sandra Day O’Connor• Iran Contra Affair• AIDS

Cold War

• Arms Race• Poland• SDI• Evil Empire• Grenada• Reagan Doctrine• Angola• Gorbachev

• Geneva Summit• INF Treaty• Fall of Communism • Fall of USSR

George HW Bush

Political Issues

• Taxes

• Kuwait

• Al Qaeda

• Operation Desert Storm

• Recession

1990 Election

• Ross Perot

• Economy

• Outsiders

• Republican Party split

William Jefferson Clinton

Political Issues

• Gays in Military• Hillary• Health Care• 1994 elections• NAFTA• Impeachment• Serbia• IRA

2000 Election

• Al Gore

• George W Bush

• Florida

• Supreme Court

George W Bush

Political Issues

• Tax cuts

• September 11, 2001

• Afghanistan War (2001)

• Iraq War (2003)

• Banking crisis

2004 Election

• John Kerry

• George W Bush

• Ohio

2008 Election

• John Mc Cain

• Barack Obama

• HOPE

Political Issues

• Great Recession

• Healthcare Reform Bill

• Gays in Military

• Osama Bin Laden

• Iraq War