Presidential Legacies Theodore Roosevelt 1901 1909 TrustBuster Conservation

Presidential Legacies

Theodore Roosevelt (1901 -1909) § “Trust-Buster” § § Conservation (opened 3 new national parks) § § Sherman Anti-Trust Act Yosemite Yellowstone Grand Tetons Panama Canal

Woodrow Wilson (1913 -1921) § § § Women’s Suffrage / Woman’s vote (19 th Amendment) League of Nations Federal Reserve Act

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933 -1945) § § § “New Deal” WWII Elected to four terms 22 nd Amendment Expansion of government and the Executive Branch “Fear itself”

Harry Truman (1945 -1953) o o o Atomic bomb decision Desegregation of military Marshall Plan NATO Korean War “The buck stops here”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953 -1961) o o o o Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII Ended Korean War Interstate Highway System Warned against the “Military. Industrial complex” Frances Gary Powers fiasco Sputnik 25 th Amendment

John F. Kennedy (1961 -1963) § § § § Youngest elected president War Hero (PT-109) Bay of Pigs disaster Cuban Missile Crisis Moon challenge Peace Corps Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Assassinated 1963 in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963 -1969) o o Civil Rights Act 1964 Tax Cut of 1964 “Great Society” Vietnam War

Richard M. Nixon (1969 -1974) o o Vietnam War expansion China relations “Détente” with USSR Watergate scandal n First president to resign

Gerald Ford (1974 -1977) § § § Nixon pardon First unelected President Confronted high inflation problem A terrible golfer Two assassination attempts

Jimmy Carter (1977 -1981) o o o Elected as an “outsider” Dealt with extreme economic conditions Camp David Accord Panama Canal Treaty Iran Hostage Crisis

Ronald Reagan (1981 -1989) § § § Oldest elected president “Reaganomics” “Ended” Cold War Known as “Great Communicator” Iran-Contra scandal

George H. W. Bush (1989 -1993) § § § Persian Gulf War Americans with Disabilities Act Pardoned major Iran-Contra scandal figures

William Jefferson Clinton (1993 -2001) o o o Largest tax increase Created first federal budget surplus Somalia and Bosnia Sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky 2 nd president to be impeached

George W. Bush (2001 -2009) o o o Won 2001 election by slimmest Electoral margin in history Rearranged government after 9/11 Bush Doctrine (Pre-emptive war) Iraq war Largest deficits in U. S. history Financial crisis when leaving office

Barack H. Obama (2009 – Present) o o o First minority president Inherited deep recession Nobel Peace Prize (2009) Healthcare Reform passed Committed US forces to the conflict in Libya