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Read My Lips and Slick Willie

Read My Lips and Slick Willie. Election of 1988: Furloughs and Foreign Policy. Mike Dukakis: 112. George Herbert Walker Bush: 426 / 54%. Crime and Punishment. Furman Decision: SC rules racial bias in jury imposed capital punishment 1972 State laws rewritten: mandatory sentencing

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Read My Lips and Slick Willie

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  1. Read My Lips and Slick Willie

  2. Election of 1988: Furloughs and Foreign Policy Mike Dukakis: 112 George Herbert Walker Bush: 426 / 54%

  3. Crime and Punishment • Furman Decision: SC rules racial bias in jury imposed capital punishment 1972 • State laws rewritten: mandatory sentencing • Prisons transformed • 1995: More $ on prisons than higher education • Crack -> Gang growth - > drive-by-shooting

  4. “A Kinder Gentler Face…” • Drug Czar • Manuel Noriega: Captured and convicted in US • Treaty: USSR-US - Reduce stockpiles by 30% • Communism’s Collapse 1991 • Don’t embarrass Gorby

  5. Persian Gulf War: 1991 • Saddam Crushes Kurds • Invades Kuwait • Saudis ask for help: US and UN • Desert Storm: Bush stopped short…good or bad? • 90% approval of Bush

  6. Carville to Bill: Its the Economy Stupid! • Recession hits ‘91-2 • S & L Crisis: Michael Milkin’s legacy • 1000 people convicted of fraud, etc • $500 billion clean-up • 1992: Bill Clinton and James Carville: “Focus like a laser beam” Stand By Your Man

  7. Comeback Kid: 1992 “The Man from Hope” in New Haven with Hil, 1971 George, Ross and Bill 168/38% 0/19% 370/43%

  8. Opportunities and Responsibilities As Policy In private life: Slick Willie • 1993: Abortion and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg • Don’t Ask Don’t Tell • Reduce Spending, Raise Taxes • Economy climbs

  9. Hillary: Whitewater and Health Care • Vince Foster • Investments • HillaryCare

  10. Contract With America 1994-1996 • Newt Gingrich: Midterms • 1995 Budget vetoed • Public blames Republicans • US Reelects Bill in 1996 • But keeps Congress Republican…

  11. Foreign Affairs…Africa, Balkans • Somalia Warlords 1993 • Blackhawk Down • Hotel Rwanda • Serbians cleanse Bosnia 1993 • Yugo’s Milosevic stopped in Kosovo by NATO 1999

  12. Racial Politics • OJ Simpson Trial • Million Man March 1995 • University of California: Ends Affirmative Action • 1997: Little Rock, little changed?

  13. Violence and Youth • 1980s: Rambo II and III, Die Hard series • MTV: Michael Jackson’s Thriller • 1990s Natural Born Killers • 1990s Gangsta Rap

  14. Clinton’s Impeachment • Paula Jones sues • Subpoenas Monica Lewinsky • Hillary: “A vast right-wing conspiracy” • Lewinsky: I was encouraged to mislead • Bill’s legalisms: “I have not had sex with her as I defined it”

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