Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (24 page)

A Youngstown, Ohio, steel mill closes in the beleaguered “Rust Belt,” April 1980. ©
Bettmann/CORBIS.

An evacuated house at Love Canal near Niagara Falls, June 1981, three years after discovery of toxic waste in the area. ©
Bettmann/CORBIS.

Students, organized by the Moral Majority, demonstrate on behalf of a school-prayer amendment. U.S. Capitol, March 1984. ©
Bettmann/CORBIS.

Bill Cosby with Malcolm Jamal Warner in a scene from
The Cosby Show
, 1985.
© Jacques M. Chenet/CORBIS.

Bill Gates.
Microsoft Corporation.

President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, on inauguration day, January 20, 1981.
TSGT John L. Marine/Defense Visual Information Center, Riverside California.

Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at their first summit meeting, Geneva, November 1985.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Gorbachev, Reagan, and President-elect George H. W. Bush near the Statue of Liberty, December 7, 1988.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson campaigning, June 1988.
© Jacques M. Chenet/CORBIS.

President Bush announces the appointment as of October 1989 of Gen. Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is behind them.
George Bush Presidential Library.

Chinese students demonstrating in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, May 4, 1989.
© Peter Turnley/CORBIS.

A crowd of West Germans gathers at a newly created opening in the Berlin Wall, November 1989.
Staff Sgt. F. Lee Corkran/Defense Visual Information Center, Riverside, California.

Devastation in Panama during the American overthrow of Manuel Noriega, December 1989.
Spec. Morland/Defense Visual Information Center, Riverside, California.