P.O.T.U.S.

        36.  Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1968

       Democrat
    VP - Humphrey
    Major Items:

• "Great Society"
• The "Cold War"
• Cuban Policy
• Income tax cut
• Escobedo v. Illinois 1964
• Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964
• Civil Rights Act, 1964
• Free-Speech Movement 1964
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964
• Vietnam War
• Counterculture
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• Voting Rights Act, 1965
• Anti-Poverty Act, 1964
• Miranda v. Arizona 1966
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy assasinated
• Elementary and Secondary education reform
• Medicare

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