Chapter 34: The Politics of Division (1993-2001)
Chapter Outline
- The Clinton Presidency
- Bill Clinton
- Biography
- Political style
- Agenda
- The Economy and Free Trade
- Clinton's tax-and-spending package
- Battle over NAFTA
- A reviving economy
- The World Trade Organization
- Setbacks: Health Care and Gay Rights
- Battle over universal health care
- Homosexuals and women in the military
- Anger on the Right
- Sources of conservative resentment
- Violence on the right
- siege at Ruby Ridge
- battle at Waco
- the Oklahoma City bombing
- Elections, 1994: A Republican Earthquake
- Anti-crime and welfare reform bills
- The "Contract with America"
- Newt Gingrich and the "Contract with America"
- Republican landslide in the 1994 midterm elections
- The 104th Congress
- Face-off
- federal government shutdowns
- emphasizing budget balancing and debt reduction
- welfare reform
- The 1996 Election
- Bob Dole and the Republican campaign
- Evidence of economic abundance
- Clinton's victory
- Bill Clinton
- The Best and Worst of Times
- The Prosperity of the 1990s
- Measures
- Widespread disparities
- Concern over marketplace practices
- Reasons for prosperity
- The Bull Market
- A Restrained Domestic Agenda
- Campaign finance reform
- Budget surplus
- Sex, Lies, and Impeachment
- The Lewinsky scandal
- Tightening the noose
- Slipping through
- The Prosperity of the 1990s
- The Post-Cold War World
- Clinton's Foreign Policy: "Democratic Enlargement"
- Russia
- Financial assistance
- Nuclear stockpiles and missiles
- Violence in the Former Yugoslavia
- Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia
- Kosovo
- China and the Pacific Rim
- Trade issues
- Recognizing Vietnam
- China
- North Korea
- Peacemaking in Haiti and Northern Ireland
- Haiti
- Northern Ireland
- Failure in Somalia and Rwanda
- Somalia
- Rwanda
- The Middle East and the Spread of Terror
- The Palestinian-Israeli conflict
- Oslo Accords
- peace treaty between Israel and Jordan
- Wye Memorandum
- resistance
- Iraq
- Terrorism
- Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
- Operation "Infinite Reach"
- the Taliban
- The Palestinian-Israeli conflict
- The Clinton Record
- Election 2000
- The Campaign
- Major-party candidates
- Gore
- Bush and Cheney
- Strategies and platforms
- Gore: ambivalence toward Clinton
- Bush: "compassionate conservatism"
- Third-party candidates
- Patrick Buchanan
- Ralph Nader
- Major-party candidates
- Disputed Outcome
- Florida: the pivotal state
- Charges of voting irregularities
- Court rulings
- Florida State Supreme Court
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Popular outrage
- criticism of the Supreme Court
- criticism of the electoral college
- disparities in quality of vote-counting machines
- Analysis of the vote
- The Campaign
- The Bush Presidency: Beginnings
- Early Steps
- Conciliatory tone
- Cabinet appointments
- Governing from the Right
- Conservative domestic agenda
- Signs of recession
- Tax cut
- Divisions in Congress
- Energy and the environmental policies
- Growing popular and congressional resistance
- Senator's defection from Republican Party
- Congressional standoff
- Human Cloning and Stem-Cell Research
- Cloning Dolly
- Ethical concerns
- Divisions among Republicans
- Bush's stance
- America First
- Bush's isolationist tendencies
- National Missile Defense
- Global warming
- rejection of the Kyoto Protocol
- European reaction
- Summer 2001
- Early Steps
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