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Richard M. Nixon*
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President after johnson; steered country in conservative direction; new federalism plan
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Henry Kissiner*
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Nixon's advisor on foreign affairs
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Paul Szep*
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Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who frequently used Nixon as the subject of his cartoons
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revenue sharing
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sate and local gov could spend federal money however they saw fit
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state and fiscal assassistance act(1972)
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bill that involved revenue sharing
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Family Assistance Plan(FAP)
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bill advocated by Nixon that replaced welfare, did not pass
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Nixon increased
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social security, Medicare/aid, food stamps
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Nizon abolished
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social programs like job corps and office of economic opp
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impound
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to withhold necessary funds for programs
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Spiro T. Agnew*
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Vice president during Nixon
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Southern Strategy
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Nixon's stragety to win southern votes via desegregation
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George Wallace*
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former Alabama governor who ran against Nixon in the election of 1968
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26th Amendment
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extended voting rights to those 18 and older
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Warren Burger
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Apointee to us court of appeals
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salt 1 treaty
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limited number of intercontiental balllistic missiles
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Barbara Jordan
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US representative of Texas; member of the House Judiciary Committee
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Author Schlesinger Jr
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author of the Imperial Presidency
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HR Haldeman
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White House Chief of Staff
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John Ehrlichman
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Chief Domestic advisor
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John Mitchell
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Nixon's former attorney general
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John Dean III
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Nixon's presidental counsel
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Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
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Washington Post reporters who uncovered watergate scandal
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James Mc cord
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former cia agent caught in watergate, security coordinator for committee to reelect
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George McGoven
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Liberal democratic candidate in election of 1972
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John Sirca
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Persiding judge for trial at the watergate buglary
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Gerald Warren
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Nixon's depuity press secretary
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John Dean
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White house council dismissed by Nixon
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Elliot Richardson
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new attorney general
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Senator Samuel James Ervin
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Chair of Senate Committee in watergate investigation
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Alexander Butterfield
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Nixon's aide who admitted that Nixon had taped his convos
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John Dean
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testified that nixon was involved in watergate
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Saturday Night Massacare
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Nixon ordered Attorney general Richardson to fire COx but Richardson refuesd
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Solicitor General Robert Burb
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finally fired Cox
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Leon Jaworski
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Cox's replacement
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Archibald Cox
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Special prosecutor apporinted by Elliot Richardson
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Spiro Agnew
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Nixon' svp who resigned after it was revaled that he had accepted bribes
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Rose mary Woods
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Nixon's secretary
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Alex Haley
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author of ROots
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Whip Inflation Now
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FOrd's program to cut back on oil and gas and take energy saving measures
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Henry Kissinger
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Nixon and Ford's secretary of state, great foreign policies
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Helsinki Accords(Finland)
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series of agreements that promised greater cooperation between the nations of Eastern and Western Europe. Ford's greatest achievement
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Mayaguez
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Cambodia ship siezed US Mayaguez and held 39 crew members hostage. FOrd sent troops and lost 41 troops.
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1976 Republican nomination
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Regan vs Ford, Ford won republican renomination
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Jimmy Carter
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confronted energy crisis, National energy act
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National Energy Act
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placed tax on gas guzzling cars, removed price controls on oil, and natural gas produced in the US, expanded tax credits for Department of National energy
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1980 inflation
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highest inflation rate since 1947, brought down carters popularity
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Carter and Civil Rights
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Carter's administration included many african americans
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Andrew Young
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First Africna American to be US Ambassador to the UN
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Regents of Cali vs Bakke
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allowed race to be used as factor in admissions but not the only factor
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Carter and Human RIghts
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Carter rejected realpolitik and embraced human rights; cut off relations with Argentina and Brazil and established Bureau of Human Rights
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Panama Canal
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1977 Carter announced pans to give up canal, turned over to Panama 1999
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Salt II
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Limited number of stragetic weapons and nuclear missile launches Soviets and US could produce; died out when societs invaded Afganistan
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Soviet Afgan War
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rebel group wanted to overthrow pro-Soviet gov, soviet sent troops but eventually had to pull out
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Anwar el-Sadat
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Egyptian president
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Menachem Begin
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Isreli Prime minister
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Camp David Accords
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Egypt and Isarel make peace with each other. go Carter!
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Iran Hostile Crisis
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Revolution in Iraq in 1979 to overthrow US supported Shah gov; Carter a;;owed Shah to enter us for cancer treatment; rebels were mad and took 52 Americans hostage; not released until 444 days later few days after Regan presidency
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Ayatillah Ruhollah Khomenini
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Leader of Iran rebels to overthrouw shah; Mislim religious leader
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Lois Gibbs
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discovered toxic waste in Love Canal
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Rachel Carson
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wirote silent spring
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Clean Air Act of 1970
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Gave gov authority to set air standards
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Earth Day
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April 22, 1970
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Enviromental Protection Agency
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Established by Nixon in 1970
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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
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turned millions of acres of land to state native tribes in Alaska
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THree Mile Island
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nuclear power plant in Penn went kabang What a cacaophony! and area was contaminated with nuclear radiation
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Neclear Reglatory Comission
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moniters nuclear power industry
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Patty Noonan
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Regan's speechwriter, very conservative
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New RIght
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groups promoted single issues that reflected their interests
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entitlement programs
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programs that provided guraranteed benefits on particular groups
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affirmative action
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policy that required gov institutions to gove special consideration to women and minority groups
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conservative coalition
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alliance of cf fundamentalist Christian groups
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William F. Buckley
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Founded National Review Newspaper; he was very conservative
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Goals of Conservative movement
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-shrink size of fed gov
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Jarry Falwell
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televangelist
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Pat Rovertson
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televangelist
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Moral Majority
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organization of very fundamental Christians which was founded by Jarry Falwell and Pat RObertson
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Jimmy Stagler Baker
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televangelist
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1980 election
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Regan and Bush won against Carter and Walter Mondale
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Regan's key issues
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abortion, porn, teaching evolution and prayer, tax cuts, budget cuts, reganomics
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Reganomics
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tax cuts, budget cuts, increased defense spending
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George GIlder and Author Laffer
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economics
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supplyside economics
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low taxes, people will invest in banks, increase productivity
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Stregetic Defense Initiatice(SDI)
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America defense system, very pricy
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REcession
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July 1981-Nov 1982f
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Sandra Day O' Connor
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1st woman supreme court justice, appointed by regian
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Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy
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nominated by regian to supreme court
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William Rehnquist
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most conservatce supreme court chief justics
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David H. Scuter
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Replaced William Brennan
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Clarence Thomas
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Replaced Thurgood Marshall
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Anita Hill
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law professor who claimed that Thomas sexually harassed her
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deregulation
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the cutting down of federal regulation on industry; increaed competion; lower prices for consumers
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Regan and deregulation
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removed price controls on oil, eliminated fed health and safety regulations for hospitals, airline industry, savings and loans industries
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james Watt
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Regian's secretary of the interior; very corrupt enviromentally; sold fedral land to private businesses cheaply and encouraged timber cutting
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March 31, 1981 Assassination attempy
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Regan shot a by mentally unbalanced man
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John Hinckley
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Mentally unbalanced man who shot Regian
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Walter Mondale
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VP under Carter; won demo nomination 1984, but lost badly in election
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Geralind Ferrano
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mondale's running mate, 1st woman on major prez ticket
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1988 Presidental election
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Michale Dukakis vs Bush
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Michael Dukakis
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Democrat gov of New Jersey, ran against Bush
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ROe vz Wade
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1st trimester pregnancies were protected under right to privacy
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Webster v. Reproductive Health Care
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states have powere to impose regulations on abortion
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A Nation at RIsk
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book that revealed US poor quality of education
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Elizabeth Dole
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Secretary of Transportation
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Margaret Heckler
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Secretary of health and human services
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American 2000
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Bush encouraged parents to use public funds to send their kids to private, public or religious schools
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pay equity
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jobs rated on amount of education instead of race or gender
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L. Douglas Wilder
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Nation's 1st African American governor; gov of Virginia
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Rev. Jessie Jackson
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ran for Demo nomination 1984 and 1988
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Richmond v. JA Croson Company
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Court limited scope of affirmative action policies
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Sylvester Monroe
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African American correspondent for newsweek
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Toney Anaya
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Hispanic governor of New York
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Robert Martinez
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Hispanic gov of Florida
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Lauro Cavazos
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Hispanic secretary of education
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Dr. Antonia Coello Novello
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Hispanic surgeon general
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Daniel Villanueva
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television executive
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The Billingual Education act (1968-1975)
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allowed spanish speakers to atttend school and jobs in own language
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ecotopia
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west
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sunbelt
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the south
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rustbelt
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north central and northeast regions
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colin powell
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National Security advisor
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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General Security of teh Communist Party in the Soviet Union; prez
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glasnost
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allowed open critism of societ government
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Boland Amendment
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cut aid to contras for 2 years
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perestroika
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reconstricting Societ society
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INF Treaty(Imtermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty)
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Alloed nulcaer inspection; eliminated two classes of wapons sysyems in Europe
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Commonwealth of Independent States
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broken down soviet union
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START II(1993)
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Cut us and soviet nuclear arsenals by two thirds
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Li Ping
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Chinese primer who ordered tiananmen Swquare massacare
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Anastasio Somaza
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US supported dictator in Nicaragua
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Contras
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rebels in Nicaragus, us supported them later to overthrow somaza
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Daniel Ortega
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Nicaraguan prez
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Violeta de Chamorro
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conta elected prez of Nicaragua
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Grenada
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us supported overthrow of pro-cuban gov
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Panama
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Bush sent troops to overthrow General maunel Antonio Norrega on charges of drug traffiicing
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Iran Contra Scandal
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Iran took Americans hostage in lebannon;; Regan sold arms to Iran for their return; money went to support contras which cilated boland ammendment
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Lieut Colonel Oliver North
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National Security Council Staff who played key role in providing aid to contras
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Laurence E. Walsh
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Special Prosecutor in contra scandal
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Persian Gulf War
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Iraq invaded Kuwait land and headed towards Saudi Arabia(where lots of oil) US did not want oil to be controlled by iraq so we attacked Iraq
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James Baker
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Secretary of State under Bush
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Operation Desest Storm
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Bush attacjed to free kuwait from iraqui conrol
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H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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commmander in chief of forces in Asia and Africa; perisian gulf war; stormin norman
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Bush
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faced rising deficits and recession, ended 12 years of rebuc leadership when ciinton was elected
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