There are two discussions I need to respond too. 100 words for both discussions. Needs to be done right away. Discussion 1: Former President Lyndon B. Johnson presented “The Great Society” speech.  In this speech, Johnson declared war on poverty and racism. This legislation included laws upholding civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and the abolition of poverty. I will argue that that when he signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 outlawing most forms of racial segregation and providing equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin, and passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawing discrimination in voting was his greatest accomplishment during his presidency. In my opinion, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968 gave black people back their dignity, pride, and in sense their freedom. Black people felt that they were now a part of America. LBJ also appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first African American justice on the Supreme Court Signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Higher Education Act to improve funding to schools, especially those in poor districts. Established the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts to support humanists and artists and created programs to tackle poverty such as Head Start, food stamps, Work Study, Medicare, and Medicaid. I will say this his gun control policy act was one of his greatest mistakes domestically because it interfered with the 2 nd amendment the right to bear arms. He came up with the policy to lessen gun violence after Kennedy was assassinated, but the problem was that he outlawed a great amount of weaponry, allowing only guns for sporting purposes. Another thing, this policy was not well thought out, it went through many different phases of revision because the simple fact is that was incomplete. I think because he was close to JFK and that he witnessed his assassination that his emotions maybe overpowered his decision professionally in regards to the gun control policy.   Despite of the accomplishments that Johnson made domestically, the Vietnam War overshadowed his domestic affairs. Which is so messed up when you think about because LBJ did not initiate the American involvement in Vietnam. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy were the ones who made it so the U.S. would and could intervene.  However, LBJ made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam.  Despite promises to bring a swift end to American involvement in Indochina, Johnson steadily increased the number of U.S. troops deployed to Vietnam, hoping to ensure a U.S. victory before withdrawing forces. No American president had yet "lost" a war, and Johnson hoped he wouldn't be the first. By the end of his second term as president, his approval rates had plummeted and his hopes for bringing an end to the war in Vietnam had dissolved.  In my opinion, LBJ had the opportunity to have a great .

1. There are two discussions I need to respond too. 100 words for
both discussions. Needs to be done right away.
Discussion 1:
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson presented “The Great
Society” speech. In this speech, Johnson declared war on
poverty and racism. This legislation included laws upholding
civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid,
environmental protection, aid to education, and the abolition of
poverty. I will argue that that when he signed the Civil Rights
Acts of 1964 and 1968 outlawing most forms of racial
segregation and providing equal housing opportunities
regardless of race, creed, or national origin, and passed the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawing discrimination in voting
was his greatest accomplishment during his presidency. In my
opinion, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968 gave black
people back their dignity, pride, and in sense their freedom.
Black people felt that they were now a part of America.
LBJ also appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first African
American justice on the Supreme Court Signed the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act and Higher Education Act to
improve funding to schools, especially those in poor districts.
Established the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
National Endowment for the Arts to support humanists and
artists and created programs to tackle poverty such as Head
Start, food stamps, Work Study, Medicare, and Medicaid. I will
say this his gun control policy act was one of his greatest
mistakes domestically because it interfered with the 2
nd
amendment the right to bear arms. He came up with the policy
to lessen gun violence after Kennedy was assassinated, but the
problem was that he outlawed a great amount of weaponry,
allowing only guns for sporting purposes. Another thing, this
policy was not well thought out, it went through many different
phases of revision because the simple fact is that was
incomplete. I think because he was close to JFK and that he

2. witnessed his assassination that his emotions maybe
overpowered his decision professionally in regards to the gun
control policy.
Despite of the accomplishments that Johnson made
domestically, the Vietnam War overshadowed his domestic
affairs. Which is so messed up when you think about because
LBJ did not initiate the American involvement in Vietnam.
Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy were the ones who made it
so the U.S. would and could intervene. However, LBJ made the
decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam. Despite
promises to bring a swift end to American involvement in
Indochina, Johnson steadily increased the number of U.S. troops
deployed to Vietnam, hoping to ensure a U.S. victory before
withdrawing forces. No American president had yet "lost" a
war, and Johnson hoped he wouldn't be the first. By the end of
his second term as president, his approval rates had plummeted
and his hopes for bringing an end to the war in Vietnam had
dissolved. In my opinion, LBJ had the opportunity to have a
great legacy behind the Vietnam War if he have ended it and
brought the soldiers home, but his pride got the best of him
because he was to stuck on what other Presidents had
accomplished with previous wars .
"Lyndon B. Johnson: Domestic Affairs." Miller Center.
Accessed March 30, 2017.
https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/domestic-affairs
.
Discussion 2:
Kennedy administation contributed to the peaceful resolution
of the Cuban Missile crisis and refrained from further escalation
of the 1961 Berlin crisis. He initiated the creation of peace
corps, arms control and disarmament Agency and Alliance for
progress in 1961. He signed the partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
, which was accepted by the Soviet union and The United

3. Kingdom. He was praised for having a less rigid view of the
world than his predecessor Dwight Eisenhower and for
accepting the world's diversity, as well as improving US
standing in the third world.
John F Kennedy 's foreign policy's biggest mistake was the Bay
of Pigs Invasion of 1961. It was ill conceived from the
beginning. JFK administration sent a small untrained force
who are mostly Cuban exiles to invade and overthrow Fidel
Castro. The invasion ended up being a disaster! The first plan
was to destroy Castro's tiny Air Force. On April 15 1961, a
group of Cubans exile left in a squadron of America B-26
Bombers, painted to look like stolen cuban planes and
conducted a strike against Cuban airfields. However, it turned
out that Castro already knew about the raid. The Cuban exile
brigade began its invasion at an isolated spot on the island's
southern shore known as the Bay of Pigs. Castro's troops
succeeded in capturing the invaders on the beach. The exiles
surrendered after less than a day of fighting; 114 were killed
and over 1,100 were taken as prisoners. This defeat undermined
America's powerful image in the face of the cold war and also
mirrored America's national security leadership as too feeble to
deal with the Soviets.
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion