Topic summary
Johnson Doctrine
37th Vice President of the United States
36th President of the United States
Tenure
- "Let Us Continue"
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Great Society
- Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964
- Food Stamp Act of 1964
- War on Poverty
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Transportation
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Child Nutrition Act
- Non-Discrimination in Federal contracts
- Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court nomination
- Civil Rights Act of 1968
Policies
The Johnson Doctrine, enunciated by United States presidentLyndon B. Johnson after the country's intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when the object is the establishment of a "communistdictatorship". During Johnson's presidency, the U.S. again began interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, particularly Latin America (reversing the previous Good Neighbor policy of the decades prior). The Johnson Doctrine is the formal declaration of the intention of the United States to intervene in such affairs. It is an extension of the Eisenhower and Kennedy Doctrines.