1. The Clinton Years
AP US History

2. American Disillusion with Politics
U.S. Term Limits, Inc vs Thornton - states couldn’t rule on federal officeholders
27th Amendment - Congressional Pay

3. Election of 1992 -Republican - incumbent George HW Bush
-Democrat - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton
-Independent - H. Ross Perot

5. Perot -Texas billionaire -Anti-Washington, Anti-deficit
-20% of pop vote

6. 1992 Campaign Issues -Bush - “No New Taxes”?
Clinton - Vietnam, Marijuana, the “Character Issue” (Gennifer Flowers)
“It’s the economy, stupid!”

8. Democrat Victory
Democrats win again in both houses of Congress

9. Clinton’s First Term Goals
-Campaign Finance Reform
-Environmental Reform
-Economic Stimulus
-Health Care Reform
-Military Discrimination
-Republican Filibusters

10. Early Successes -Family and Medical Leave Act -”Motor Voter” law
-Brady Bill

11. NAFTA -Canada - U.S. - Mexico Free Trade Zone
-Perot - “That great sucking sound” -

12. Republican Takeover -1994 Congressional Elections
-controlled both houses for first time since 1954
-”Contract with America”
-Government Shutdowns

13. Anti-Government Extremists
-Waco, Texas
-David Koresh
-Oklahoma City 1995
-Timothy McVeigh

15. 1990s Terrorism 1993 - World Trade Center
Kenya and Tanzania Embassies
USS Cole

16. Balanced Budget -1996 - compromise budget
- left Medicare and SS benefits intact, limited welfare to five years, curbed some immigration, raised minimum wage, balanced budget
-first federal surplus since 1969

17. Election of 1996 -Clinton-Gore (Democrat) - 379/49.2
-Dole-Kemp (Republican) - 159/40.8
-Perot - Reform

19. 1996 -First Democrat incumbent to win since FDR
-First time Republicans retained both houses since 1920s

20. Technology Boom “E-commerce” -Apple -Intel -Microsoft -Amazon -AOL
-Yahoo
-Google
-inflation rate below 3%
-1 in 14 households worth $1 million or more
-first lower-income gains in real income since 1973

21. Dot-com bubble
-boom of 1990s peaked in 2000, over by 2002

23. Clinton’s Second Term -What to do with the surplus?
-Republicans - tax cuts
-Democrats - support Social Security, expand Medicare, reduce debt

24. Investigations of Clinton
-Whitewater
-Troopergate
-Travelgate
-Filegate
-Vince Foster’s Death

25. Lewinsky
-Former White House intern
-Kenneth Starr, Paula Jones

26. Impeachment -December 1998 - House voted to impeach on two counts
-fall elections - Democrats gained seats in House
-Feb formal trial in Senate - not even majority to impeach

27. Clinton’s Foreign Policy
-First Sec of State - Warren Christopher
-low-key
Sec of State - Madeleine Albright - first woman
-more assertive

28. Peacekeeping Missions
-Somalia
-Haiti
-Slobodan Milosevic
-Bosnia/Kosovo
-India/Pakistan
-North Korea
-Israel/West Bank

29. Globalization -World Trade Organization (WTO) - 1994
-International Monetary Fund (IMF)
-G-8

30. Immigration Reform -failed to stop illegal entry
-criticized by some for amnesty

31. Graying of America
-Baby-boomers get older
-future of social security?

32. Changing Families Number of families headed by single women rises
single women headed 47.2% of black families in 2000
similar trend among white and Hispanic families

33. Income and Wealth -US was richest country in world
-largest gap between highest and lowest paid workers
Gilded Age repeating itself?