Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson YearsSundquist clearly and engagingly traces the development of many programs in what would become Johnson's Great Society as they developed over three presidential administrations. Education reform, poverty, the environment, social services and more are shown rising from America's post-war boom but taking years, and often much effort, to come into being. This history is more complete than even many individual accounts of given programs as it examines presidential influence, public opinion, changes in Congress, the rise and fall of interest groups, and how each can lead or be led by the others. |
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Inhalt
Beyond Opportunity to Achievement | 283 |
For the Old Health Care | 287 |
Groping for Position | 291 |
The Rise of a National Issue | 296 |
The Struggle for Consensus | 308 |
For All a Better Outdoor Environment | 322 |
The Dispute over the Federal Role | 323 |
The Acceptance of Federal Responsibility | 345 |
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The War Is Declared | 134 |
For the Young Schools | 155 |
Years of Frustration | 156 |
The National Defense Education Act | 173 |
More Years of Frustration | 180 |
The Education Crisis Reaches College | 195 |
Education Becomes a National Responsibility | 205 |
For Minorities Equal Rights | 221 |
Historic Breakthrough | 222 |
Victory For Moderation | 238 |
The Rejection of Moderation | 250 |
Campaign Promisesand Legislative Priorities | 254 |
Birminghamand the Third Civil Rights Act | 259 |
Selmaand the Fourth Civil Rights Act | 271 |
Black Powerand the Bill That Failed | 275 |
Beauty for America | 361 |
Ideas and Parties | 385 |
Democratic Initiative | 389 |
Table 1 Party Initiative and Response Major Legislative Measures 155360 | 390 |
Republican Response | 415 |
Ideas and Elections | 430 |
The 195354 Recessionand the Democratic Resurgence | 431 |
Public Response to Activism | 441 |
Public Response to the Republican Appeal | 452 |
The Issues and the Elections 1958 and 1960 | 456 |
The Kennedy Mandate | 466 |
Ideas and Laws | 471 |
The Democratic Program Blocked | 473 |
The Democratic Program Unblocked | 481 |
Development of New Measures | 489 |
Ebbing of the Tide | 496 |
Toward More Responsive Government | 506 |
Congressional Reform | 512 |
Party Realignment | 523 |
The Agenda of Activism | 536 |
INDEX | 541 |
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Seite 262 - We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it. And we cherish our freedom here at home. But are we to say to the world — and much more importantly to each other — that this is the land of the free, except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens, except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettos, no master race, except with respect to Negroes.
Seite 44 - Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other.
Seite 179 - The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the Nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of its young men and women.
Seite 262 - It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk. It is a time to act in the Congress, in your state and local legislative body, and, above all, in all of our daily lives.
Seite 188 - I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote...
Seite 274 - Experience has clearly shown that the existing process of law cannot overcome systematic and ingenious discrimination. No law that we now have on the books — and I have helped to put three of them there — can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.
Seite 262 - The events in Birmingham and elsewhere have so increased the cries for equality that no city or State or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them. The fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city, North and South, where legal remedies are not at hand. Redress is sought in the streets, in demonstrations, parades, and protests which create tensions and threaten violence and threaten lives.
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| Titel | Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years |
| Autor/in | James Sundquist |
| Verlag | Brookings Institution Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0815719094, 9780815719090 |
| Länge | 560 Seiten |
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