Everything You Need to Know About Midterms

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Know your candidates and causes, find your polling place, have a plan! There are plenty of small steps you can take to be ready for the midterm election. But if you want to know what they're about and why they matter? Look and listen no further. Keith Hughes (with some help from Cheryl Cook-Kallio and Dan Cassino) tells us the five things you need to know about midterms. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 1965, opponents of President Lyndon Baines Johnson referred to him as King Lyndon I.
0:10.6	For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and
0:17.5	the powerful society, but upward to the great society.
0:29.0	Once being sworn in as President after the assassination of JFK in 1963, Johnson had
0:33.8	launched a set of programs called the Great Society.
0:37.6	It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.
0:42.4	He signed the Heart Cellar Immigration Act, created Medicaid and Medicare.
0:46.7	The integration leader, Martin Luther King, receives his pay.
0:49.6	A gift he said he would charge.
0:51.9	It was in this administration that protest led by Martin Luther King and DC and Enselma
0:57.0	resulted in two pieces of the most important legislation of our country, the Civil Rights
1:02.2	Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1:06.2	All of this, while navigating our involvement in Vietnam.
1:09.9	The main purpose of the operation was to clear the area of an estimated battalion of Viet
1:14.9	Kong.
1:15.9	Democrats held 289 House seats and 68 Senate seats.
1:20.9	Political minds declared the Republican Party officially dead.
1:25.5	How can you unseat a king?
1:28.3	Milk.
1:37.6	The Great Society was no match for the price of milk.
1:44.7	In 1966, small protests in Baltimore and Denver caught the eye of the Republican National
1:49.8	Committee, which claimed Johnson's Great Society programs in America's involvement in Vietnam
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