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1
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Key features of Eisenhower’s presidency

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1952-1960
Republican
“Good wholesome values”, ex military WWII chief, typical 50s, liked by housewives but not young people.

2
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Key features of Kennedy’s presidency

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1960-1963
Democrat
“New Frontier”, space race, civil rights, war on poverty, touch cold war stance
He was very young and had to ‘prove’ himself
Assasinated :(

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Key features of Johnson’s presidency

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1963-1968
Democrat
“Great Society”, hated for vietnam war by liberal, hated by conservatives because his “Great Society” cost tax money

4
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Key features of Nixon’s presidency

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Republican
1968-1974
“Silent majority” (conservatives who don’t speak about civil/women’s rights/ Vietnam even though they must taxes)
Watergate scandal - resigned the day before he was due to be impeached

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Key features of Truman’s presidency

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1945-1952
Democrat
Dropped atomic bomb, lots of communist fear, did very little for black americans