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Both JFK and Johnson were highly famous, yet controversial presidents. Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the US, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to run in office. As president, Kennedy endured to tense Cold War strains in Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere. He additionally drove a reestablished drive for an open administration and in the long run gave government support to the developing social equality development. On November 22, 1963 JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His successor, Johnson, took over as president for a brief period of time. In spite of his noteworthy accomplishments in mainland US, Johnson's legacy was characterized by his inability to lead

In Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech the language he uses shows that America can be greatly improved to achieve a great society. “"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson.” Johnson is telling the citizens of America that he envisions America to become a great society. He wants to work on the weaknesses so that the American society can be fully developed and advanced in the quick developing world. “The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal

During Johnson’s presidency, the federal government significantly extended its domestic responsibilities in attempt to transform the nation to what Johnson called the “Great Society,” in which poverty and racial intolerance ceased to exist. A previously unsurpassed amount of legislation was passed during this time; numerous laws were passed to protect the environment, keep consumers safe, reduce unfairness in education, improve housing in urban areas, provide more assistance to the elderly with health care, and other policies to improve welfare. Johnson called for a “War on Poverty,” and directed more funds to help the poor; government spending towards the poor

Upon Johnson taking office in 1963, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Johnson forced the passage of civil rights and economic legislation that Kennedy had sustained. Johnson was not always supportive of this bill BUT he foreseen the opportunity to present himself as a leader to the mourning nation. He used skills that he had acquired as Senate Majority Leader and ensured the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Tax Act of 1964 and the

After Kennedy’s assassination, the country mourned and Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency and began to finish the work that JFK started.

Lyndon B. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, near the central Texas community of Johnson City. He graduated from Southwest State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas on 1930. To help pay for his education, he taught at a school for disadvantaged Mexican-American students in South Texas. The way he looked at the effects of poverty and discrimination on his students made a deep impression on Johnson and caused in him a lifelong desire to find a solution of those problems. Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36h president of the United States due to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 1963. Thanks to him today we have the following: Medicare, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. He also had a deep and huge

America has gone through high and lows as a country, but overall we overcome and grow and use our history to shape out future. When John F. Kennedy died, Lyndon B. Johnson took over as president and was at first liked and favored that he came back for a real term after the term he took over after JFK died. He then changed, and brought many Americans to fight in Vietnam and sacrifice their lives for a Vietnamese war, and was greatly looked down upon for this. Lyndon B. Johnson politically and socially with his Great Society and changed during his time as President of the United States of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson had only served one term, but he surprisingly accomplished a lot during his only term. Johnson had the ability to pass the acts that Kennedy created during his time in office. Some of these accomplishments include: Medicare and Medicaid, Education acts, and the Civil Rights acts. In order to continue his war on poverty, he established Medicare and Medicaid to aid poor families and the elderly. To further help families in need, as well as children, Johnson passed education acts to fix and create more public schools in poor areas. Lastly, civil rights acts were passed to give better opportunities for blacks within the United States. While these acts were based on Kennedy's ideas, Johnson found the way to put them into place.

In 1963, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency. Johnson, a democrat, had enormous ambitions to expand the role of the federal government in American’s lives like FDR had done. The nation was in shock and Johnson rode the wave to have the martyred president’s “New Frontier” agenda passed into law. As a former majority leader in the Senate, he used his know-how to continue to churn bills one after another through Congress. Most notable among them was the Civil Rights Act of 1964: a landmark in the fight for equality. Johnson’s other bills were part of a declared war against poverty, and these would come to be called a part of his “Great Society” harkening back to FDR’s “New Deal” in both

Johnson’s agenda to make a Great Society for all Americans came with a lot new reforms and brilliant ideas. His ambitious

J.F. Kennedy went on to win the presidential campaign and elected Lyndon to be his vice president candidate. In 1963 J.F. Kennedy was then assassinated and Lyndon took the position of executive chief justice. Lyndon Johnson was one of his biggest critics and often referred to himself as the accidental president but the more I learn the more I compared his struggle with mine. I learn that Lyndon Johnson had a mother who was very ambitious and was a college graduated but when she married Lyndon father (Earl) and had 5 children she had to put all her dreams away and focus in raising her children.

During LBJ’s presidency, liberalism was at its high point. LBJ called for collective action in hope to complete and perfect FDR’s New Deal to create the “Great Society.” LBJ emphasized that there is more to life than just jobs and economic gains, but the importance of realizing the meaning to life and society. In addition, he believed there should be a focus on cleaning up neighborhoods and appreciating the beauty of nature. As a result, the government focused on environmental protection and stressed that “man needs to renew contact with nature.” Also, he focused on ending poverty and racial injustice through governmental programs. He believed that government had an obligation to ensure opportunities for its citizens which ultimately resulted

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a series of domestic programs, between 1933-1938, as a means of combating the effects of the Great Depression. Both presidential executive orders and laws passed by Congress created programs that provided relief for the unemployed and the poor. Democrats, supporters of this New Deal, were considered “liberal” while opponents who viewed the New Deal as an enemy of business and economic growth were deemed “conservative.” The purpose of New Deal liberalism and the programs of the Great Society were to boost the nation’s economy and help Americans get on the road to recovery. As these programs have grown, and the federal government has enlarged its scope and involvement in lives of the everyday citizens, some fear that American’s freedoms are being infringed upon. Barry Goldwater, in his book The Conscience of a Conservative, presents the conflict between the ideas of liberalism and conservatism that have emerged in the 20th century. He argues that liberalism has taken man’s freedom away and man has become “enslaved politically”, and therefore dependent on the government (11). Because of this, Goldwater disagrees with much of New Deal and Great Society legislation which expanded the government’s power over the people. According to Goldwater, “throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.” (15) The Founding Fathers were acutely aware of

Historians and scholars have often debated the success and failures of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency since 1945. A number of scholars argue that he created jobs, boosted the economy, and helped America get back onto the road of becoming a great nation. On the other hand, it can be argued that his plans and ideas to create jobs only lasted for the short term and his acts created long-term problems. This paper will discuss Roosevelt’s life, his reforms, and both the positive or negative outcome those actions had on America. However, it must be stated, for the struggles America was going through, and the perseverance they held to triumph over their trials, was in part due to Roosevelt’s boundless leadership as president. Franklin Delano

Throughout the years, different personalities, events, and movements have made significant contributions to the history of the United States of America. On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in his car, The Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1946 which would lead to the first nuclear weapons created during WWII, and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in December 7, 1941. Those are among the events that have tremendously changed the course of the American history. In this essay, we will explain why we think that President Lyndon B. Johnson and the “Great Society” reforms have greatly contributed to the history of this country.