A Short History of the United States

296 a short history of the united states were to be indexed to reflect cost of living increases. In addition, the capital gains ...

Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War 297 It did not take much imagination for some members to recognize that televisio ...

298 a short history of the united states in June 1982 , Reagan spoke to a joint session of the two houses of the British Parliam ...

Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War 299 tenant Col onel Oliver North, along with Casey, as the men responsible for ar ...

300 a short history of the united states Herbert Walker Bush pardoned two others in 1992. Caspar Wein- berger, the secretary of ...

Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War 301 nomic activities. That meant lessening the tension and bitterness be- tween t ...

302 a short history of the united states front-runner, Gary Hart, a former senator from Colorado, was obliged to withdraw when n ...

Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War 303 “kinder” and “gentler”America in place of the raucous, violent country it had ...

304 a short history of the united states to the oil in the Middle East, Bush succeeded in urging the United Na- tions to take ac ...

11 The Conservative Revolution O ne of the ways in which a kinder and gentler country started to emerge was the passage, on July ...

306 a short history of the united states conservative base. It was such a flagrant disregard of a campaign prom- ise that it cos ...

The Conservative Revolution 307 Clinton’s 370 electoral votes came from 32 states; Bush’s 168 came from 18 states. And Congress ...

308 a short history of the united states 1789 , but it was one of two amendments proposed that was not ratifi ed when the first ...

The Conservative Revolution 309 1995 destroyed the federal office building in Oklahoma City, and 169 men, women, and children lo ...

310 a short history of the united states now ruled the lower chamber after forty years in the wilderness, and they also won cont ...

The Conservative Revolution 311 would have gotten Clinton and his staff to realize how deadly serious we were.” The public react ...

312 a short history of the united states White House, a battle Clinton had clearly won. But many conserva- tives did not forgive ...

The Conservative Revolution 313 Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in November, 1993 , which set up a free trade zone or common market cons ...

314 a short history of the united states society engaged in more frequent sexual activities. These encounters became so prevalen ...

The Conservative Revolution 315 to undergo abortions legally, and this right became a rallying cry in the women’s liberation mov ...