Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

318 Index

television 185–6
Tennessee Valley Authority 201
Thomas, Justice Clarence 227, 231
Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988) 249
Thurmond, Governor Strom 85, 138
ticket-splitting 28, 38–41, 71, 97
trade associations 109
trade policy 275–8
Treasury Department 168, 196, 275
Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reduction
280
Trop v. Dulles (1957) 229
Truman, David B. 28, 119
Truman, President Harry S. 70, 156,
217, 261
Tsongas, Senator Paul 80
Turner, Frederick Jackson 19
turnout (voting) 37–8

Un-American Activities Committee
144–5, 205, 229
unions 59, 111
United Nations 260
United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops 107
urban politics 26–8, 58
US v. Brown (1965) 230
US v. Lopez (1995) 212, 231
US v. Morrison (2000) 212, 231

Ventura, Governor Jesse 40
Versailles, Treaty of (1919) 146, 175, 260
Veterans Affairs, Department of 196
Veterans of Foreign Wars 107
veto, presidential 139–41; pocket veto
139; line item veto 140
Vice-President 6; chronological list of
303–4; nomination 76, 86–7; presides
over Senate 131; role of 86–7, 158,
170; succeeds as president 91; and
Twenty-Second Amendment 176–7

Vietnam War 16, 66, 177, 261–3

Violence Against Women Act (1994) 212

Voting Rights Act (1965) 70

Waco, Texas 67, 115

Wagner Act (1935) 108

Wallace, Governor George 45, 91

Wallace, Vice-President Henry 86

‘War on Terror’ 250–4, 255

War Powers Act (1973) 262

Warren Court 214, 229–30, 231

Warren, Chief Justice Earl 40, 214

Washington, President George 158, 176,

196, 201

Watergate affair 163, 177–8, 183

Watkins v. US (1956) 229

W.E.D. Du Bois Clubs 66

Welch, Robert 66

welfare reform 242–5

Wells v. Rockefeller (1969) 216

Western, J. 193

White, Justice 248

White, Theodore H. 78

White House Office 14, 161, 162–5, 180,

192

Wilkie, Wendell 83

Wilson, Edith 240

Wilson, James Q. 33, 208

Wilson, President Woodrow 129, 156,

240

Wolfowitz, Paul 53, 192, 270

Wood, Robert C. 28

Woodward, Bob 183, 281

World Trade Center 270

World Trade Organization 276–7

Wright Mills, C. 20, 44

Wroe, A. 258, 281

Yates v. US (1956) 229

Young Socialist Alliance 66

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

(1952) 217–18