Actions of Johnson:
Poverty:
• Experienced in politics
• Housing created issues in ghettos
• Focused on domestic issues
• 40 million poor families estimated in 1964
• Passed over 60 pieces of legislation
• 25 million poor families estimated in 1968
• Used Executive Orders less than Kennedy and Carter
• Percentage of impoverished Americans fell from 17% in 1965 to 1
• Won 61% od vote in 1964 election – lost votes of states in Deep South
Failures:
• Medicare and Medicaid was more expensive than anticipated
Ode to Kennedy:
• Gaps in coverage of these programmes
• Kept many of his team
• $1.3 billion spent in 1965
• Northerners were suspicious of him as a Southerner
• $2 billion spent in 1966
• Ordered Earl Warren to head a committee into Kennedy’s death
• $98 billion spent in 1990
Great Society:
• Announced ‘unconditional war on poverty’
• Medicare and Medicaid in 1965
• Voting Rights Act in 1965
Johnson
Domestic
• Minimum wage raised by 35 cents
Tax cuts continued and inflation remained under 2%
• Inflation issue for Nixon in 1968
Educational reforms:
• 54 million Americans had never finished high school • Unemployment began to rise reaching 3.7% in 1967
• 100 000 could not afford to go to college • In 1967, 60% of Americans saw the high cost of living as their
• By the end of his presidency, over 13 million had benefitted from
federal aid to education
• By 1970 25% of students received financial aid
Vietnam effects:
• Killed the war on poverty
Medicare and Medicaid: providing for 20% of population by 1976 • Created tax increases
• Government spent $500 000 to kill ONE Vietcong soldier
Head Start programme: • Between 1965-73 $15.5 billion was spent on the Great society but $120 billion was s
• Provided schooling for 1 million students
Poverty:
• Experienced in politics
• Housing created issues in ghettos
• Focused on domestic issues
• 40 million poor families estimated in 1964
• Passed over 60 pieces of legislation
• 25 million poor families estimated in 1968
• Used Executive Orders less than Kennedy and Carter
• Percentage of impoverished Americans fell from 17% in 1965 to 1
• Won 61% od vote in 1964 election – lost votes of states in Deep South
Failures:
• Medicare and Medicaid was more expensive than anticipated
Ode to Kennedy:
• Gaps in coverage of these programmes
• Kept many of his team
• $1.3 billion spent in 1965
• Northerners were suspicious of him as a Southerner
• $2 billion spent in 1966
• Ordered Earl Warren to head a committee into Kennedy’s death
• $98 billion spent in 1990
Great Society:
• Announced ‘unconditional war on poverty’
• Medicare and Medicaid in 1965
• Voting Rights Act in 1965
Johnson
Domestic
• Minimum wage raised by 35 cents
Tax cuts continued and inflation remained under 2%
• Inflation issue for Nixon in 1968
Educational reforms:
• 54 million Americans had never finished high school • Unemployment began to rise reaching 3.7% in 1967
• 100 000 could not afford to go to college • In 1967, 60% of Americans saw the high cost of living as their
• By the end of his presidency, over 13 million had benefitted from
federal aid to education
• By 1970 25% of students received financial aid
Vietnam effects:
• Killed the war on poverty
Medicare and Medicaid: providing for 20% of population by 1976 • Created tax increases
• Government spent $500 000 to kill ONE Vietcong soldier
Head Start programme: • Between 1965-73 $15.5 billion was spent on the Great society but $120 billion was s
• Provided schooling for 1 million students
