1950s 60s Domestic Politics I Dwight Eisenhower 1953

1950’s & 60’s Domestic Politics

I. Dwight Eisenhower (1953 -60) • Moderate (Keeps most New Deal/Fair Deal Policies) & “apolitical” War Hero and Grandfather-like Image • Reassures Cold War era anxieties http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=n. G 4 IX 5 j. Bc 4 Q

Economic & Social Trends in 1950’s: GI Bill, Interstate Highway Act, Military – Industrial Complex, & Move to the Sun Belt, Suburbia

II. JFK (1961 -1963) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=PE 7 JDIki. EZg http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Jf 3 r 0_Adl. EY http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=KDhcypoyw. Cc&feature=related

“New Frontier” = JFK Domestic Plans • Goals include: medical insurance for elderly, more civil rights, environmental regulation, increased funding for public transportation & education, higher minimum wage, reorganize income taxes • Gets mixed Congressional support initially due to narrow victory • Most programs passed when LBJ becomes President

• • • JFK & Cold War Space Race/Moon Pledge Establishes Peace Corps Targets Latin America & “ 3 rd World” Nations JFK adjusts “New Look” to “Flexible Response” Cuban Missile Crisis

III. LBJ as President (1963 – 1968)

1964 Election: LBJ vs Goldwater “Daisy Commercial” helps spark Landslide for LBJ http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=63 h_v 6 uf 0 Ao

LBJ Aspires to be another FDR • “War on Poverty” Job Corps, VISTA, Head Start, School Lunches, Appalachian Development, EEOC, HUD • “Great Society” Education, Medicare, Immigration, PBS, NEA, Environment, Consumer Protection, Civil Rights

Vietnam dilemma takes $ & focus away from domestic agenda (Guns vs. Butter)