President Johnson and Nixon's Ideologies

President Johnson and Nixon's Ideologies

Thesis Statement

This paper is comparing and contrasts the ideologies of President Johnson and Nixon's about the role of federal government and social welfare.

President Johnson and Nixon's Ideologies

In the history of America, President Nixon adopted a program known as "New Federalism” that was invented to stop the practice of "throwing money at problems” (Mankiller, 1998, p78). He reversed many social and economic welfare programs of his precursor; Lyndon Johnson. However, on the issues of race Nixon's active participation and efforts towards African Americans to get education, economic benefits, and equal opportunity, and also he ...