Public Policy Since the New Deal

This blog serves CMC Government 191, Public Policy Since the New Deal, Fall 2025. During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see

Monday, October 6, 2025

JFK & LBJ

Questions on the assignment?

Have to leave a little early for a meeting. Student hour today: 1:15-2:15.

For next time, the Marmor reading on Canvas

Factual error on Johnson, p. 217. No, Nixon did not say he had a "secret plan" to end Vietnam.

1960 Campaign

The shadow of FDR:

Kennedy family's direct connection
Eleanor makes a spot.

Hispanic outreach & Jackie Kennedy
Black outreach and Harry Belafonte

The Cold War: Civil Rights and domestic policy

Civil Rights

Poverty (Johnson 222)

JFK in WV
IMPACT OF BOOKS: Michael Harrington, The Other America (Johnson 210)

Environment

Another book: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
Radioactive snow and the 1963 Test-Ban Treaty

JFK Assassination

Gun control and RFK assassination
Conspiracy theories and the Cold War
LBJ becomes president

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