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©2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights reserved. ©2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights reserved. McGraw-Hill The Election of 1992 The Election of 1992 –Gramm-Rudman Act (1985) –White-collar unemployment –“It’s the Economy…” “What role would the United States play in the post-cold war era, when it stood as the lone superpower in the world arena? That was a question for William Jefferson Clinton as he sought to lead the United States into the twenty-first century”(1098)

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©2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights reserved. ©2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights reserved. McGraw-Hill Clinton: Ambitions and Character Clinton: Ambitions and Character –Clinton agenda –Don’t ask; don’t tell –Whitewater The New World Disorder The New World Disorder –Clinton hoped to pay less attention to foreign affairs –Americans in Haiti The Clinton Presidency: Managing a New Global Order 33-6

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©2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights reserved. ©2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights reserved. McGraw-Hill The Clinton Presidency on Trial Recovery without Reform Recovery without Reform –Clinton program –NAFTA –Health care reform The Conservative Revolution Reborn The Conservative Revolution Reborn –The Contract with America –Government shutdown –Welfare reform 33-10

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