THE SOCIAL POLICIES OF PRESIDENTS KENNEDY & JOHNSON
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- THE SOCIAL POLICIES OF PRESIDENTS KENNEDY & JOHNSON
- In 1960, when addressing the Democrat Party, Kennedy set out
the idea of a new direction: a new frontier
- As part of this new frontier Kennedy got a large number of reforms approved by Congress. These included:
- the extension of unemployment benefit
- more aid to poor cities to improve housing & transportation
- increases in social security benefits
- aid to economically distressed areas
- the expansion of rural electrification programmes providing help to rural farming
- As part of this new frontier Kennedy got a large number of reforms approved by Congress. These included:
- Once Johnson became President in 1963, he called
Kennedy’s ‘new frontier’ policy Johnson’s Great Society
- This Great Society aimed to tackle problems of unemployment, bad housing, inadequate medical care and civil rights
- Johnson's Political Reforms to Establish his 'Great Society'
- The Economic
Opportunity Act 1964
- Provided training to disadvantaged youths aged 16-21, and recruited volunteers to work and teach in low-income slum areas
- Medicare and
Medicaid, 1965
- Provided medical insurance for the over-65s & hospital care for the poor (most Americans have private health insurance)
- The Development Act, 1964
- Money was provided for replacing inner-city slums with new homes
- other initiatives were:
- There were schemes to help highway safety including compulsory safety measure for cars.
- There were also laws to ensure clean water supplies and better air quality with less pollution.
- The Economic
Opportunity Act 1964
- There was much criticism of the reforms from
Republicans who hated the way in which they acted as a brake on people’s
freedoms & poor African Americans who still lived in sub-standard housing
- The Vietnam war overshadowed Johnson’s Great Society reforms- opinions for the war were increasingly negative.
- When LBJ decided not to stand for re-election in 1968 he was at the time remembered almost entirely as the President who was responsible for growing toll deaths and injuries of American troops in Vietnam
- The Vietnam war overshadowed Johnson’s Great Society reforms- opinions for the war were increasingly negative.
- In 1960, when addressing the Democrat Party, Kennedy set out
the idea of a new direction: a new frontier
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