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After reading these pages in the textbook, you should be able to:

1. Describe the issues and outcome of the tight Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign of 1960. 2. Summarize the major changes in American culture in the 1950s, including the rise of Jewish, southern, and African American writers and playwrights. 3. Describe the high expectation stirred by Kennedy's New Frontier and his limited success in achieving his domestic objectives. 4. Describe Johnson's succession to the presidency in 1963, his electoral landslide over Goldwater in 1964, and his Great Society successes in 1965.