Johnson's+Policies

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Policies:
 * Great Society: ** major tax and civil rights laws as well as Medicare, Medicade, and voting rights
 * Foreign Policy: ** ill at ease in foreign policy, mainly relied on the judgment of the Kennedy team.
 * Vietnam: ** Never had a grand strategy in Vietnam. No strategic guidance for military/civilian advisers.
 * Latin America: ** Guantanamo Naval Base water shut off by Castro, Johnson had navy create their own water supply. Panama Canal Zone riots dealt with, but negotiations returned the zone to Panama by 1999. Dominican Republic- sent troops in to stop an attempt to overthrow the US backed leader, Reid Cabral, highly unpopular in Latin America.
 * Arms Control: ** signed **//Outer Space Treaty//** w/ Soviet Premier banning nuclear weapons in earth’s orbit. Also became a party of **//Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty//**, prohibiting the transfer of nuclear weapons to other nations.