Restless Giant, page 54
DeLay, Tom, 325
Democracy, nations turning to, 195
Democratic Leadership Council. See DLC
Democratic National Committee, 1, 145
Democrats. See also Election(s): changes of, 78–79
conservative, 79
liberals, 79–80, 84, 85, 94, 110, 402
New, 190, 329
Reagan, 131, 323
Demographics, of schools, 19, 21–23, 37–38
Desegregation, 15, 15n7, 22, 67, 366
Détente, 4, 102–4
Detroit, 25
Diana, Princess of Wales, 6, 277
Dionne, E. J., 375
Dirty Harry, 41
Disabled. See Handicapped
Disarmament, 194–95, 201, 205, 215–17, 402, 406, 424
Discrimination: against minorities, 11
reverse, 30
sex, 52
against women, 9, 11, 55, 271
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, 303
Diversity, 26, 32
Divorce: female employment and, 51, 58
rise in, 50–51, 51n25, 183, 271
DLC (Democratic Leadership Council), 190, 221, 248
Dobson, James, 134, 266
Dog Day Afternoon, 13
Dole, Robert, 104, 106, 219, 324, 372–73, 377–78
Dollar, devaluation of, 7
Domestic policies: of Bush, George H. W., 238–40
of Clinton, 252, 272, 318
of Reagan, 154, 156–57, 162, 170, 191
Domestic terrorism, 12, 198, 379–86, 383n111
Dominican Republic, 72
Donovan, Hedley, 157
Douglass, Frederick, 266
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 7, 7n17, 170, 203, 350
Dr. Kildare, 71
Draft, 2, 9
Draft evaders, 3, 121
Drudge Report, 389–90
Drugs, 41, 227, 268, 273, 406
Du Bois, W.E.B., 15, 316
Dukakis, Michael, 220–24, 253
Dynasty, 185
Earned Income Tax Credit. See EITC
Easterbrook, Gregg, 117
Eastern Europe, 106
Eastwood, Clint, 6, 41
eBay, 356
Economic equality, 18, 304–6
Economic policies: of Carter, 110–13, 115, 148
of Ford, 96–98
of Nixon, 6–7
of Reagan, 158–60, 162–63, 166–70, 169n53
Economic sanctions, 232, 236, 236n41, 336
Economics: Keynesian, 6, 109, 112, 132, 168
supply side, 154–55, 166, 246
Economy: Carter and, 110–13, 115, 148
Clinton and, 394, 403–4
debt increase and, 63–64
as dependent, 347
faltering of, xii, 6, 7, 33
foreign competition’s impact on, 63
government’s impact on, 59
growth of, 9, 11, 58–59, 224, 290, 346, 357, 378
immigration and, 298
in late 1970s, 62
manufacturing changes in, 62
mechanization and, 63
minimum wage’s impact on, 63, 350, 373
Nixon and, 6–7
outsourcing and, 64, 347, 357
post-industrial society and, 62
recovery of, xii, 366
service jobs and, 62, 62n59
South and, 58–59
stagnation of, 59, 74
U.S. role in world, 61–62, 360
West and, 58–59
Education: African Americans and, 19–20, 19n18, 314–16
bilingual, 35, 35nn 55–56, 36, 85, 292
changes in, 53–54
inequities in, 315–16, 353
options in, 316
sex, 45, 137, 180, 266
special, 36, 36n57, 314
spread of higher, 79
Education for All Handicapped Children Act, 35, 36n58, 67
Education policies: of Bush, George H. W., 238–40
of Clinton, 402
of Ford, 36
Edwards, John, 275
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), 15, 24, 27, 113, 173, 241, 242, 243
Egypt, 121–22, 125, 139, 232, 236
Eisenstadt v. Baird, 47n11
EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit), 113, 165, 333, 375, 378
El Salvador, 195, 208, 226
Election(s): of 1976, 76, 76n3, 89, 104–7
of 1980, 128–33, 145n94, 147–51, 149n105, 200
of 1984, 189–91
of 1988, 218–24, 238
of 1992, 247–53, 252nn 76–77, 292
of 1996, 366–79
of 2000, 398, 404–25, 405n44, 409n51, 410nn52–53, 413nn56–57, 415n60, 416nn63–64, 417n65, 419nn69–71, 422nn 75–77
women and, 244, 244n62
Electoral college, 420–21, 420nn72–73
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. See ESEA
Ellis, Joseph, 399
Embargo, of oil, 7, 65
Endangered Species Act of 1973, 116, 118
Endara, Guillermo, 227
Energy: America’s use of, 350
automobiles and, 119, 354–55
Energy policies: of Carter, 110, 111, 119–21
of Ford, 97
England. See Great Britain
Enola Gay, 262
Entitlements, 14, 75, 88, 302
Environmental policies, 354
of Bush, George H. W., 240
of Carter, 116–19, 117n24, 120
of Clinton, 348, 379
of Reagan, 176–77
Environmental Protection Agency. See EPA
Environmentalists, 38, 86, 113, 116
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), 116, 118, 177
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. See EEOC
Equal pay, 54–57
Equal rights, 51, 272
Equal Rights Amendment. See ERA
Equality. See also Income
inequality in: economic, 18, 304–6
social, 18
ER, 286
ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), 3, 52, 54, 54n33, 115, 134, 139
“Era of Decline,” 10, 11, 152
ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), 34, 239–40
Eskimos, 26–27
Ethics in Government Act of 1978, 85, 325
Ethiopia, 104
Ethnicity, 25–26
“Ethno-racial pentagon,” 27
Europe, immigration and, 295
Euthanasia, 137
Evangelicals, xii, 135–37, 141, 143, 143n86, 219, 257, 337–38, 406
Evers, Medgar, 305
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), 384
FAIR (Federation of American Immigration Reform), 116, 297, 297nn 13–14
Fallows, James, 108, 109
Falwell, Jerry, 138–39, 145, 177, 256, 261
Family: 1970s and, 74–75
collapse of, 33
divorce and, 50–51
employment and, 54–58
patterns of, 271–72
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 241, 272, 326
Family Research Council, 256, 267
“Family reunification,” 296
Family Ties, 187, 188
Farm programs, 59, 167
Farrakhan, Louis, 220, 276, 309
Farrow, Mia, 6
Father Knows Best, 187
Faulkner, William, 59
FBI, 72, 382
FCC (Federal Communications Commission), 283, 324
Fear of Flying (Jong), 46
FEC (Federal Election Commission), 83, 87
Federal Aviation Administration. See FAA
Federal budget, 333, 371–82, 407
Federal Communications Commission. See FCC
Federal Election Commission. See FEC
Federal Housing Administration, 38
Federal Reserve, 359
Federalism, 2, 366, 416
Federation of American Immigration Reform. See FAIR
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 370. See also Bosnia
Female employment, 50–51, 54–58. See also Women
Feminism, 3, 51, 178, 272
Fences, 171
Ferraro, Geraldine, 185, 189
Fidelity Investments, 351
Field of Dreams, 287
Filibusters, 85
Finance reform, campaign, 87–88, 376–77
First Blood, 206
The First Amendment, 136, 303
FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), 382
Fiscal conservative, 112, 131, 238
Fiscal manager, 331–33, 331n38, 404
Fiske, Robert, 342
Florida ballots, 410–19, 413nn56–57
Florida Supreme Court, 414–19
Flowers, Gennifer, 249
Focus on the Family, 266
Fonda, “Hanoi Jane,” 185
Food and Drug Administration, 278
Food, consumption of, 355, 355n29
Ford, Gerald: assassination attempts on, 42, 93
background of, 92–93
busing and, 23
Cheney as aide of, 95–96, 106
Cold War and, 102–4
draft evaders’ leniency offered by, 3
economy and, 96–98
education and, 36
election of 1976 and, 104–7
energy policy of, 97
foreign policies of, 98–102
intelligence operations and, 73
Nixon pardoned by, 4, 5, 94
presidency of, 2, 4, 6, 81, 83, 85, 92–96
recession and, 96–97
Soviet Union and, 99, 102–3
tax cuts and, 96–97
Vietnam and, 98–102
Ford, Harold, 84
Ford, Harrison, 285
Ford Motor Company, 60
Ford, Richard, 288, 363
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. See FISA
Foreign policies: after Vietnam, 4, 200
of America, xii, 4, 12, 197
of Bush, George H. W., 225–38
of Carter, 121–26, 146
of Clinton, 334–41, 399–402
of Ford, 98–102
of Reagan, 199–200
redefining of, xii
Foreign terrorism, 336
Foreman, George, 6
Fortune, 157
Foster, Vincent, 277
The Fourteenth Amendment, 31, 415
Fox, Michael J., 187
France, 288
Frankfurter, Felix, 55, 55n35
Frasier, 286
Free trade policies. See NAFTA
Freedland, Jonathan, 359
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, 331
Freedom of Information Act, 84
Freeman v. Pitts, 313n57
Freemen, 261
Frum, David, 47, 268
Fukuyama, Francis, 194, 196
Fund-raising, 222
Furman v. Georgia, 41, 41n72
Gandhi, 287
Gates, Bill, xii, 59, 361
Gates, Henry Louis, 308, 403
Gay-haters, 261
Gays/gay rights, 133, 134, 137, 138, 180–82, 271, 374, 374n85. See also Anti-gay rights; Homosexuality
Gaza Strip, 196, 336
Gender issues, 3, 149
General Electric, 285
General Electric Theater, 130
Generation X, 269
Gephardt, Richard, 190, 220, 320
Germany, 195, 203
Gilmore, Gary, 42
Gingrich, Newt, 131, 247, 324–25, 330, 333, 343, 366, 396
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 55, 330
Glasnost, 214
Glendon, Mary Ann, 274, 276
Global communication, 297
Global Positioning System. See GPS
“Globalization,” xii, 360–62, 360n54, 385
Glory, 287
GNP (gross national product), 8, 8n20, 9
Goals 2000, 240, 331, 337
The Godfather, 42
The Godfather Part 2, 42
Goetz, Bernhard, 172–73, 173n61
Goldman, Ron, 310
Goldwater, Barry, 90, 102, 106, 130, 131, 208
Goode, Wilson, 170
Goodfellas, 284
Gorbachev, Mikhail, xii, 194–95, 213–17, 228–29. See also Soviet Union
Gore, Al, Jr., 220, 250, 349
2000 election and, 404–21, 409n51, 410nn52–53, 413nn 56–57
background of, 405
Clinton and, 408
Florida ballots and, 410–19, 413nn 56–57
Government: conspiracies of, 72–73
defense contracts and, 59
as divided, 81
economy and, 59
enlarging role of, 10
farm programs and, 59, 167
federal deficits of, 12, 65, 112, 249
health and welfare responsibilities of, 79, 402
shutdown of, 371
space contracts and, 59
Governor: Bush, George W. as, 396
Clinton as, 239, 318
Reagan as, 130, 147
GPS (Global Positioning System), 60
Graham, Billy, 135
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Patterson), xi
Grasso, Ella, 53
Great Britain, 43, 48, 124, 197, 202, 216, 357, 359
“Great Communicator,” 153
Great Depression, 162
Great Recession, 7
Great Society, 85, 90, 163, 345
“Greatest generation,” 9, 9n22
The Greatest Generation (Brokaw), 364
Greece, 198
Greenfield, Meg, 24
Greenhouse gases, 349, 379
Greenhouse, Linda, 242
Greenspan, Alan, 203, 247, 332, 333, 351, 365
Grenada, 205–7
Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 27n37
Gross national product. See GNP Grove, Andrew, 361
Guatemala, 196, 204, 226
Gulf of Siam, 101
Gulf of Tonkin, 72
Gulf War I, xii, 201, 230–38, 234n38, 235n39, 336
Gulf War Syndrome, 277
Gun control, 78, 222, 406
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 366
Guyana, 195
Habits of the Heart (Bellah), 258
Hacker, Andrew, 62, 305
Haig, Alexander, 94, 193
Haiti, 339, 340
Haley, Alex, 16–17, 17n12
Hamas, 198, 380, 384
Handicapped, 10, 14, 24, 67, 85
Harkin, Tom, 84, 247
Harlan County, 339
Harris, Katherine, 414–15
Hart, Gary, 84, 220, 249
Hate groups, 261
Head Start program, 240, 241
Health and Human Services. See HHS
Health benefits, 184
Health care: Clinton and, 328–30
insurance and, 183–84
issues about, 45, 318
Reagan and, 183–84
welfare and, government and, 79, 402
Health, improvement of, 355
Hearst, Patricia, 77, 77n5
Hedonism, 69
Helms, Jesse, 262
Help America Vote Act in 2002, 421
Helsinki Accords, 102
Hezbollah, 198, 207, 210, 380, 384
HHS (Health and Human Services), 175
Hill, Anita, 243–44
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 264, 267
Hinckley, John, Jr., 155
Hirsch, E. D., Jr., 255
Hispanics: immigration and, 301, 307, 307n42
poverty and, 307, 307n38
History textbooks, 266
Ho Chi Minh City, 101
Holbrooke, Richard, 370
Home Improvement, 285
Homelessness, 170, 170n58
Homicide, 44, 268, 268n41
Homosexuality, 45, 252. See also Gays/gay rights
Horton, Willie, 223
Hostage. See American hostages, in Lebanon; Arms-for-hostages swap; Iranian hostage crisis
House Judiciary Committee, 396
House Un-American Activities Committee, 85
Housing and Urban Development. See HUD
Hubbell, Webster, 397
HUD (Housing and Urban Development), 175
Hudson, Rock, 179
Human Events, 147
Human rights, 204–5
Hume, Brit, 376
Humphrey, Hubert, 24, 28
Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, 114
Hungary, 392
Hunter, James “Catfish,” 58
Hunter, James Davison, 264, 265
Huntington, Samuel, 199
The Hunt for Red October (Clancy), 206
Hussein, Saddam, 198, 230–38, 230n30, 336, 379, 381
Huxtable, Ada Louise, 38
I Love Lucy, 281, 281n75
Iacocca, Lee, 187
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 102
Ice-T, 282
Illegal immigration, 294, 294n4
Illegitimacy, 48–50, 51
Immigrants, xii
Immigration, 291–304, 294n4
affirmative action and, 25, 26, 26n36
growth of, 293–98, 294nn5–7, 352, 353
Hispanics and, 301, 307, 307n42
legislation and, 293, 295–96, 298–300, 385
Immorality, sexual, 255
Immunity, 391
Impeachment, xii, 86, 325, 342–43, 387–99, 388n1
Income, inequality in, 11, 352, 352nn16–17, 358, 358n48
Income tax, 66
Independent prosecutors, 86
Independents, 82
India, 4, 4n9, 196, 383
Indonesia, 195, 198, 376
Industry, 61, 116, 172, 178, 245, 280, 358n47, 361
INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty, 215–16, 223
Infant mortality, of African Americans, 16, 18, 356
Inflation, 7–8, 33, 65, 97, 127–28, 148, 162–63
“Information revolution,” xii
Institute for American Values, 256
Integration, 306–7
Intermarriage, 309–10
Internal Revenue Service. See IRS
International Monetary Fund, 61, 100, 335, 360, 362
Internet, 60, 272, 357, 361–63
Interstate highway system, 59
Iran, 197, 336, 379, 383, 384
invaded by Iraq, 126
revolutionaries of, 198
Iran-contra scandal, 193, 207–13, 212n38
Iranian hostage crisis, xii, 109, 125–26, 146
Iraq, 126, 379, 384
Bush, George H. W. and, 230–38. See also Gulf War I
Iraqi Arabs, 4
Iron Curtain, 102
IRS (Internal Revenue Service), 137–38, 138n72, 168, 351
Islamic jihad, 198
Israel, 7, 122, 335–36, 412, 412n55
Israeli-Arab hostilities, 206–7
It Seemed Like Nothing Happened (Carroll), 14
Italy, 30, 40, 198, 372
Jackson, Henry, 102, 105, 122
Jackson, Jesse, 114, 171, 190, 220, 252, 367
Jackson, Maynard, 16
Jackson, Michael, 185, 280
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 102
Democracy, nations turning to, 195
Democratic Leadership Council. See DLC
Democratic National Committee, 1, 145
Democrats. See also Election(s): changes of, 78–79
conservative, 79
liberals, 79–80, 84, 85, 94, 110, 402
New, 190, 329
Reagan, 131, 323
Demographics, of schools, 19, 21–23, 37–38
Desegregation, 15, 15n7, 22, 67, 366
Détente, 4, 102–4
Detroit, 25
Diana, Princess of Wales, 6, 277
Dionne, E. J., 375
Dirty Harry, 41
Disabled. See Handicapped
Disarmament, 194–95, 201, 205, 215–17, 402, 406, 424
Discrimination: against minorities, 11
reverse, 30
sex, 52
against women, 9, 11, 55, 271
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, 303
Diversity, 26, 32
Divorce: female employment and, 51, 58
rise in, 50–51, 51n25, 183, 271
DLC (Democratic Leadership Council), 190, 221, 248
Dobson, James, 134, 266
Dog Day Afternoon, 13
Dole, Robert, 104, 106, 219, 324, 372–73, 377–78
Dollar, devaluation of, 7
Domestic policies: of Bush, George H. W., 238–40
of Clinton, 252, 272, 318
of Reagan, 154, 156–57, 162, 170, 191
Domestic terrorism, 12, 198, 379–86, 383n111
Dominican Republic, 72
Donovan, Hedley, 157
Douglass, Frederick, 266
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 7, 7n17, 170, 203, 350
Dr. Kildare, 71
Draft, 2, 9
Draft evaders, 3, 121
Drudge Report, 389–90
Drugs, 41, 227, 268, 273, 406
Du Bois, W.E.B., 15, 316
Dukakis, Michael, 220–24, 253
Dynasty, 185
Earned Income Tax Credit. See EITC
Easterbrook, Gregg, 117
Eastern Europe, 106
Eastwood, Clint, 6, 41
eBay, 356
Economic equality, 18, 304–6
Economic policies: of Carter, 110–13, 115, 148
of Ford, 96–98
of Nixon, 6–7
of Reagan, 158–60, 162–63, 166–70, 169n53
Economic sanctions, 232, 236, 236n41, 336
Economics: Keynesian, 6, 109, 112, 132, 168
supply side, 154–55, 166, 246
Economy: Carter and, 110–13, 115, 148
Clinton and, 394, 403–4
debt increase and, 63–64
as dependent, 347
faltering of, xii, 6, 7, 33
foreign competition’s impact on, 63
government’s impact on, 59
growth of, 9, 11, 58–59, 224, 290, 346, 357, 378
immigration and, 298
in late 1970s, 62
manufacturing changes in, 62
mechanization and, 63
minimum wage’s impact on, 63, 350, 373
Nixon and, 6–7
outsourcing and, 64, 347, 357
post-industrial society and, 62
recovery of, xii, 366
service jobs and, 62, 62n59
South and, 58–59
stagnation of, 59, 74
U.S. role in world, 61–62, 360
West and, 58–59
Education: African Americans and, 19–20, 19n18, 314–16
bilingual, 35, 35nn 55–56, 36, 85, 292
changes in, 53–54
inequities in, 315–16, 353
options in, 316
sex, 45, 137, 180, 266
special, 36, 36n57, 314
spread of higher, 79
Education for All Handicapped Children Act, 35, 36n58, 67
Education policies: of Bush, George H. W., 238–40
of Clinton, 402
of Ford, 36
Edwards, John, 275
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), 15, 24, 27, 113, 173, 241, 242, 243
Egypt, 121–22, 125, 139, 232, 236
Eisenstadt v. Baird, 47n11
EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit), 113, 165, 333, 375, 378
El Salvador, 195, 208, 226
Election(s): of 1976, 76, 76n3, 89, 104–7
of 1980, 128–33, 145n94, 147–51, 149n105, 200
of 1984, 189–91
of 1988, 218–24, 238
of 1992, 247–53, 252nn 76–77, 292
of 1996, 366–79
of 2000, 398, 404–25, 405n44, 409n51, 410nn52–53, 413nn56–57, 415n60, 416nn63–64, 417n65, 419nn69–71, 422nn 75–77
women and, 244, 244n62
Electoral college, 420–21, 420nn72–73
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. See ESEA
Ellis, Joseph, 399
Embargo, of oil, 7, 65
Endangered Species Act of 1973, 116, 118
Endara, Guillermo, 227
Energy: America’s use of, 350
automobiles and, 119, 354–55
Energy policies: of Carter, 110, 111, 119–21
of Ford, 97
England. See Great Britain
Enola Gay, 262
Entitlements, 14, 75, 88, 302
Environmental policies, 354
of Bush, George H. W., 240
of Carter, 116–19, 117n24, 120
of Clinton, 348, 379
of Reagan, 176–77
Environmental Protection Agency. See EPA
Environmentalists, 38, 86, 113, 116
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), 116, 118, 177
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. See EEOC
Equal pay, 54–57
Equal rights, 51, 272
Equal Rights Amendment. See ERA
Equality. See also Income
inequality in: economic, 18, 304–6
social, 18
ER, 286
ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), 3, 52, 54, 54n33, 115, 134, 139
“Era of Decline,” 10, 11, 152
ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), 34, 239–40
Eskimos, 26–27
Ethics in Government Act of 1978, 85, 325
Ethiopia, 104
Ethnicity, 25–26
“Ethno-racial pentagon,” 27
Europe, immigration and, 295
Euthanasia, 137
Evangelicals, xii, 135–37, 141, 143, 143n86, 219, 257, 337–38, 406
Evers, Medgar, 305
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), 384
FAIR (Federation of American Immigration Reform), 116, 297, 297nn 13–14
Fallows, James, 108, 109
Falwell, Jerry, 138–39, 145, 177, 256, 261
Family: 1970s and, 74–75
collapse of, 33
divorce and, 50–51
employment and, 54–58
patterns of, 271–72
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 241, 272, 326
Family Research Council, 256, 267
“Family reunification,” 296
Family Ties, 187, 188
Farm programs, 59, 167
Farrakhan, Louis, 220, 276, 309
Farrow, Mia, 6
Father Knows Best, 187
Faulkner, William, 59
FBI, 72, 382
FCC (Federal Communications Commission), 283, 324
Fear of Flying (Jong), 46
FEC (Federal Election Commission), 83, 87
Federal Aviation Administration. See FAA
Federal budget, 333, 371–82, 407
Federal Communications Commission. See FCC
Federal Election Commission. See FEC
Federal Housing Administration, 38
Federal Reserve, 359
Federalism, 2, 366, 416
Federation of American Immigration Reform. See FAIR
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 370. See also Bosnia
Female employment, 50–51, 54–58. See also Women
Feminism, 3, 51, 178, 272
Fences, 171
Ferraro, Geraldine, 185, 189
Fidelity Investments, 351
Field of Dreams, 287
Filibusters, 85
Finance reform, campaign, 87–88, 376–77
First Blood, 206
The First Amendment, 136, 303
FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), 382
Fiscal conservative, 112, 131, 238
Fiscal manager, 331–33, 331n38, 404
Fiske, Robert, 342
Florida ballots, 410–19, 413nn56–57
Florida Supreme Court, 414–19
Flowers, Gennifer, 249
Focus on the Family, 266
Fonda, “Hanoi Jane,” 185
Food and Drug Administration, 278
Food, consumption of, 355, 355n29
Ford, Gerald: assassination attempts on, 42, 93
background of, 92–93
busing and, 23
Cheney as aide of, 95–96, 106
Cold War and, 102–4
draft evaders’ leniency offered by, 3
economy and, 96–98
education and, 36
election of 1976 and, 104–7
energy policy of, 97
foreign policies of, 98–102
intelligence operations and, 73
Nixon pardoned by, 4, 5, 94
presidency of, 2, 4, 6, 81, 83, 85, 92–96
recession and, 96–97
Soviet Union and, 99, 102–3
tax cuts and, 96–97
Vietnam and, 98–102
Ford, Harold, 84
Ford, Harrison, 285
Ford Motor Company, 60
Ford, Richard, 288, 363
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. See FISA
Foreign policies: after Vietnam, 4, 200
of America, xii, 4, 12, 197
of Bush, George H. W., 225–38
of Carter, 121–26, 146
of Clinton, 334–41, 399–402
of Ford, 98–102
of Reagan, 199–200
redefining of, xii
Foreign terrorism, 336
Foreman, George, 6
Fortune, 157
Foster, Vincent, 277
The Fourteenth Amendment, 31, 415
Fox, Michael J., 187
France, 288
Frankfurter, Felix, 55, 55n35
Frasier, 286
Free trade policies. See NAFTA
Freedland, Jonathan, 359
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, 331
Freedom of Information Act, 84
Freeman v. Pitts, 313n57
Freemen, 261
Frum, David, 47, 268
Fukuyama, Francis, 194, 196
Fund-raising, 222
Furman v. Georgia, 41, 41n72
Gandhi, 287
Gates, Bill, xii, 59, 361
Gates, Henry Louis, 308, 403
Gay-haters, 261
Gays/gay rights, 133, 134, 137, 138, 180–82, 271, 374, 374n85. See also Anti-gay rights; Homosexuality
Gaza Strip, 196, 336
Gender issues, 3, 149
General Electric, 285
General Electric Theater, 130
Generation X, 269
Gephardt, Richard, 190, 220, 320
Germany, 195, 203
Gilmore, Gary, 42
Gingrich, Newt, 131, 247, 324–25, 330, 333, 343, 366, 396
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 55, 330
Glasnost, 214
Glendon, Mary Ann, 274, 276
Global communication, 297
Global Positioning System. See GPS
“Globalization,” xii, 360–62, 360n54, 385
Glory, 287
GNP (gross national product), 8, 8n20, 9
Goals 2000, 240, 331, 337
The Godfather, 42
The Godfather Part 2, 42
Goetz, Bernhard, 172–73, 173n61
Goldman, Ron, 310
Goldwater, Barry, 90, 102, 106, 130, 131, 208
Goode, Wilson, 170
Goodfellas, 284
Gorbachev, Mikhail, xii, 194–95, 213–17, 228–29. See also Soviet Union
Gore, Al, Jr., 220, 250, 349
2000 election and, 404–21, 409n51, 410nn52–53, 413nn 56–57
background of, 405
Clinton and, 408
Florida ballots and, 410–19, 413nn 56–57
Government: conspiracies of, 72–73
defense contracts and, 59
as divided, 81
economy and, 59
enlarging role of, 10
farm programs and, 59, 167
federal deficits of, 12, 65, 112, 249
health and welfare responsibilities of, 79, 402
shutdown of, 371
space contracts and, 59
Governor: Bush, George W. as, 396
Clinton as, 239, 318
Reagan as, 130, 147
GPS (Global Positioning System), 60
Graham, Billy, 135
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Patterson), xi
Grasso, Ella, 53
Great Britain, 43, 48, 124, 197, 202, 216, 357, 359
“Great Communicator,” 153
Great Depression, 162
Great Recession, 7
Great Society, 85, 90, 163, 345
“Greatest generation,” 9, 9n22
The Greatest Generation (Brokaw), 364
Greece, 198
Greenfield, Meg, 24
Greenhouse gases, 349, 379
Greenhouse, Linda, 242
Greenspan, Alan, 203, 247, 332, 333, 351, 365
Grenada, 205–7
Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 27n37
Gross national product. See GNP Grove, Andrew, 361
Guatemala, 196, 204, 226
Gulf of Siam, 101
Gulf of Tonkin, 72
Gulf War I, xii, 201, 230–38, 234n38, 235n39, 336
Gulf War Syndrome, 277
Gun control, 78, 222, 406
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 366
Guyana, 195
Habits of the Heart (Bellah), 258
Hacker, Andrew, 62, 305
Haig, Alexander, 94, 193
Haiti, 339, 340
Haley, Alex, 16–17, 17n12
Hamas, 198, 380, 384
Handicapped, 10, 14, 24, 67, 85
Harkin, Tom, 84, 247
Harlan County, 339
Harris, Katherine, 414–15
Hart, Gary, 84, 220, 249
Hate groups, 261
Head Start program, 240, 241
Health and Human Services. See HHS
Health benefits, 184
Health care: Clinton and, 328–30
insurance and, 183–84
issues about, 45, 318
Reagan and, 183–84
welfare and, government and, 79, 402
Health, improvement of, 355
Hearst, Patricia, 77, 77n5
Hedonism, 69
Helms, Jesse, 262
Help America Vote Act in 2002, 421
Helsinki Accords, 102
Hezbollah, 198, 207, 210, 380, 384
HHS (Health and Human Services), 175
Hill, Anita, 243–44
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 264, 267
Hinckley, John, Jr., 155
Hirsch, E. D., Jr., 255
Hispanics: immigration and, 301, 307, 307n42
poverty and, 307, 307n38
History textbooks, 266
Ho Chi Minh City, 101
Holbrooke, Richard, 370
Home Improvement, 285
Homelessness, 170, 170n58
Homicide, 44, 268, 268n41
Homosexuality, 45, 252. See also Gays/gay rights
Horton, Willie, 223
Hostage. See American hostages, in Lebanon; Arms-for-hostages swap; Iranian hostage crisis
House Judiciary Committee, 396
House Un-American Activities Committee, 85
Housing and Urban Development. See HUD
Hubbell, Webster, 397
HUD (Housing and Urban Development), 175
Hudson, Rock, 179
Human Events, 147
Human rights, 204–5
Hume, Brit, 376
Humphrey, Hubert, 24, 28
Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, 114
Hungary, 392
Hunter, James “Catfish,” 58
Hunter, James Davison, 264, 265
Huntington, Samuel, 199
The Hunt for Red October (Clancy), 206
Hussein, Saddam, 198, 230–38, 230n30, 336, 379, 381
Huxtable, Ada Louise, 38
I Love Lucy, 281, 281n75
Iacocca, Lee, 187
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 102
Ice-T, 282
Illegal immigration, 294, 294n4
Illegitimacy, 48–50, 51
Immigrants, xii
Immigration, 291–304, 294n4
affirmative action and, 25, 26, 26n36
growth of, 293–98, 294nn5–7, 352, 353
Hispanics and, 301, 307, 307n42
legislation and, 293, 295–96, 298–300, 385
Immorality, sexual, 255
Immunity, 391
Impeachment, xii, 86, 325, 342–43, 387–99, 388n1
Income, inequality in, 11, 352, 352nn16–17, 358, 358n48
Income tax, 66
Independent prosecutors, 86
Independents, 82
India, 4, 4n9, 196, 383
Indonesia, 195, 198, 376
Industry, 61, 116, 172, 178, 245, 280, 358n47, 361
INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty, 215–16, 223
Infant mortality, of African Americans, 16, 18, 356
Inflation, 7–8, 33, 65, 97, 127–28, 148, 162–63
“Information revolution,” xii
Institute for American Values, 256
Integration, 306–7
Intermarriage, 309–10
Internal Revenue Service. See IRS
International Monetary Fund, 61, 100, 335, 360, 362
Internet, 60, 272, 357, 361–63
Interstate highway system, 59
Iran, 197, 336, 379, 383, 384
invaded by Iraq, 126
revolutionaries of, 198
Iran-contra scandal, 193, 207–13, 212n38
Iranian hostage crisis, xii, 109, 125–26, 146
Iraq, 126, 379, 384
Bush, George H. W. and, 230–38. See also Gulf War I
Iraqi Arabs, 4
Iron Curtain, 102
IRS (Internal Revenue Service), 137–38, 138n72, 168, 351
Islamic jihad, 198
Israel, 7, 122, 335–36, 412, 412n55
Israeli-Arab hostilities, 206–7
It Seemed Like Nothing Happened (Carroll), 14
Italy, 30, 40, 198, 372
Jackson, Henry, 102, 105, 122
Jackson, Jesse, 114, 171, 190, 220, 252, 367
Jackson, Maynard, 16
Jackson, Michael, 185, 280
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 102
