Dreaming in the 1960s

The first president during the 1960s was John F. Kennedy. He was young, appealing, and had a carefully crafted public image that barely won him the election. Because former President Eisenhower supported the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon, and because many had doubts about Kennedy's youth and Catholic

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A book written by Rachel Carson described for the first time the dangers of using pesticides. Rioting mobs in Watts, California pillaged, killed, and burned, leading to the death or injury of hundreds and millions of dollars in damage. Later, the Johnson Administration issued Medicaid, which gave assistance to all ages. Another subject that concerned the government under Lyndon B. This program led to new educational, employment, housing, and health-care developments.

In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted to push beyond social integration, now guaranteed under the previous year's Civil Rights Act, to political rights. The war in Southeast Asia and the war at home dominated newspaper headlines and the attention of the White House.

One of the chief movemtns that came from the Student Movement were the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War. The sixties became an era in which pleasure was being considered as a constitutional right rather than a privalege, inwhich self-denial became increasingly seen as foolish rather than virtuous. The President was surrounded by loud motorcycles driven by the Secret Service. Look at that guy up there in the window with a rifle" (Pett 12). Also, the Omnibus Housing Act gave rent supplements to the poor.

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