Read Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore Online
Authors: James T. Patterson
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Bond, Julian,
2
The Bonfire of the Vanities
(Wolfe),
186
Booknotes,
286
Books, America and,
289
Border Patrol,
300
,
382
Bork, Robert,
171
,
244
,
254
–55
Born-again Christians,
141
Bosnia,
339
–40,
343
Serbs in,
225
–26,
368
–71.
See also
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Boston, busing in,
20
–21,
21
n
21
Boston Globe,
21
Bowers v. Hardwick,
180
n
85
“Bowling Alone” (Putnam),
258
Bradley, Bill,
404
Bradley, Tom,
16
Brady, James,
155
Branch Davidians,
327
Brando, Marlon,
46
Brennan, William,
243
Breyer, Stephen,
330
,
417
Brezhnev, Leonid,
102
,
103
,
104
,
122
Britain.
See
Great Britain
Brokaw, Tom,
364
“Broken window” theory,
41
–42,
42
n
73
Bronson, Charles,
42
Brooks, David,
279
Brown, Jerry,
73
,
247
,
250
Brown, Linda,
173
Brown v. Board of Education,
15
,
19
n18,
20
,
24
,
173
,
182
Bryant, Anita,
138
Bryson, Bill,
280
Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
122
,
125
,
255
Buchanan, Patrick “Pat,”
180
,
250
–51,
266
,
292
,
293
,
372
,
405
,
409
,
413
Buckley v. Valeo,
83
n
22
Buckley, William,
210
Budget and Impoundment Control Act,
84
Budget Enforcement Act,
246
Buffett, Warren,
351
Bugliosi, Vincent,
418
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
327
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization,
300
Burger, Warren,
2
,
27
,
68
Bush, George H. W.: 1988 election and,
218
–24,
238
abortion and,
251
–52
Cheney as Defense Secretary for,
225
,
227
,
228
,
232
,
233
,
237
China and,
228
as CIA head,
95
defense spending of,
229
,
229
n
27
domestic policies of,
238
–40
economic sanctions and,
232
,
236
,
236
n
41
education policies of,
238
–40
environmental policies of,
240
federal debt and,
246
foreign policies of,
225
–38
Gorbachev and,
228
–29
international politics and,
195
Iraq and,
230
–38
NAFTA and,
226
Noriega and,
226
–27
recession and,
247
Soviet Union and,
228
–29
Supreme Court nominees and,
242
–44
as vice president,
128
–29,
210
,
212
,
219
Yugoslavia and,
225
–26
Bush, George W.,
95
,
201
,
222
,
235
,
384
,
384
n
114
2000 election and,
404
–25,
413
nn
56
–57
abortion and,
406
background of,
405
–6
defense policies of,
403
as evangelical,
406
Florida ballots and,
410
–19,
413
nn
56–57
as governor,
396
Religious Right and,
222
Bush, Jeb,
412
,
414
Bush v. Gore,
416
,
417
Busing: African Americans and,
20
–23
Ford and,
23
Nixon and,
22
Byrd, James,
293
Califano, Joseph,
128
California propositions.
See
Proposition
Cambodia,
99
,
101
Camp David Accords,
121
–22
Campaign finance reform,
83
,
87
–88,
91
,
376
–77,
377
n
96
Canada,
226
,
251
,
268
,
295
,
329
,
333
Cannon, Lou,
159
,
192
Capital Cities,
285
Capital gains tax,
66
,
378
Car culture,
38
.
See also
Automobiles
Caribbean,
297
Carlucci, Frank,
193
Carroll, Peter,
14
Carson, Johnny,
48
Carter, Jimmy,
xii
,
69
background of,
108
–9
bailout and,
63
Camp David Accords and,
121
–22
dams and water projects and,
112
–13
defense budget and,
124
deficit and,
112
economic policies of,
110
–13,
115
,
148
election of 1976 and,
76
,
89
,
104
–7
election of 1980 and,
128
–29,
145
n
94,
147
–51,
149
n
105
energy policies of,
110
,
111
,
119
–21
environmental policies and,
116
–19,
117
n
24,
120
as fiscal conservative,
112
foreign policies of,
121
–26,
146
inflation and,
127
–28
Iranian Hostage crisis and,
125
–26
Soviet Union and,
122
–23