THE NEW DEAL AFTER ROOSEVELT Each president continues

THE NEW DEAL AFTER ROOSEVELT Each president continues the tradition

THE ORIGINAL NEW DEAL 1932 -41 FDR’s plan to use the federal government to engineer better economy and help eliminate the worst inequality. More business regulation Higher taxes on wealthy Social Security, Union rights, banking regulations part of longterm legacy.

HARRY TRUMAN 1945 -53: FAIR DEAL Increase Social Security Increase Minimum Wage Better low-income housing National Health Care (Failed) Support for Civil Rights (almost costs him presidency in 1948— southern Dems break away and form third party to protest.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (53 -61) “MODERN REPUBLICANISM” First Republican since New Deal Doesn’t try to get rid of New Deal Expands Soc. Security INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ACT

INTERSTATE HIGHWAY ACT Largest Public Works program in American history. (also had a Cold War purpose)

JOHN F. KENNEDY 1961 -63 NEW FREEDOM Bold plan to expand opportunity, decrease poverty Almost nothing passed (but almost everything becomes part of Johnson’s Great Society)

LYNDON B. JOHNSON 1963 -1969 WAR ON POVERTY Fight poverty by creating opportunity Office of Economic Opportunity runs program THE GREAT SOCIETY CIVIL RIGHTS! Head Start Training programs Medicare/Medicaid Highway Beautification

GREAT SOCIETY PROS AND CONS See POINT/COUNTERPOINT in textbook on p. 692 and “IMPACT OF THE GREAT SOCIETY on p. 693