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1. NVC

2. HOT ROC: Unfulfilled Potential

3. Lyndon Johnson: the Great Society

Essential Question: Was the Great Society successful?Homework: Finish Great Society activity if necessary

HOT ROC: Unfulfilled Potential

• Do you think John F. Kennedy’s domestic policies (New Frontier, Civil Rights, etc) WOULD HAVE made him a great president IF they had gone into effect? Explain why or why not

Lyndon B. Johnson

• 1963 Lyndon Johnson succeeds Kennedy – Develops Great Society

domestic policy to fulfill and expand on Kennedy’s vision

• Was the Great Society successful?

Debrief

– What is Califano’s main argument? What is Sowell’s main argument?

– What evidence does each use to support his claim?

– Who do you find more convincing? Why– How are some of these arguments playing out in

today’s debate on the economy?