Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (74 page)

The Closing of the American Mind
(Bloom),
255

CNN,
285

Coca-Cola,
197

Cochran, Johnnie,
312

Cohen, William,
400

Cold War,
xi
,
xii
,
4
,
60
,
99
,
102
–4,
123
,
124
,
153
,
194
–96,
216
–17,
425

College Republican National Committee,
256

Colombia,
198

Columbia,
183
,
183
n
93

“Comeback Kid,”
250

Comedy Central,
283

Comfort, Alex,
48

Coming Home,
100

The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call
(Rowan),
255
,
305

Commager, Henry Steele,
2
,
10

Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress,
132

Committee on the Present Danger,
122
,
131

Common Cause,
82
,
86
,
325

Common Sense Legal Reform Act,
344

Communism/Communists,
99
,
101
,
146
,
153
,
162
,
191

   collapse of,
194
–96,
200
,
204
–7,
228
,
246

Community organizations,
258
–59

Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
See
CETA

Computerization,
360
–63

Concerned Women for America.
See
CWA

Congo,
72
,
339

Congressional Budget Office,
84

Connally, John,
92

Conservatives: AFDC and,
50

   affirmative action and,
25

   America and,
254
–55,
260
,
263
,
264

   Bush, George W. and,
324
,
330
,
375

   Clinton and,
324
,
330
,
375

   in Democratic Party,
79

   fiscal,
112
,
131
,
238

   focus of,
133
–35,
184
–85

   religious,
3
,
136
,
177
,
256
,
259
,
266

   sexual revolution and,
48

   social,
177
.
See also
Neo-conservatives

Conspiracies, of government,
72
–73

Consumer culture,
6

Consumer goods,
5
,
357

Consumer Product Safety Commission,
116
,
177

Consumerism,
277
–80

Contract with America,
343
–44,
367

Contributions, campaign,
83
,
91
,
376
–77,
377
n
96

Coors, Joseph,
132

Cops,
282

Corporations,
27
–28,
277
–80,
285
–86

Cosby, Bill,
187

The Cosby Show,
171
,
187
,
286

Cowlings, Al,
311

Credit card debt,
279
–80

Crichton, Michael,
203

Crime,
3
,
15
,
365

   African Americans and,
43
,
274

   America and,
255
,
260
–61,
273
–74

   bill, Clinton and,
341
–42

   “broken window” theory of,
41
–42,
42
n
73

   cause of,
40
–44,
41
n
71

   rising rate of,
45

Croatia,
339
,
368
–70

Cronkite, Walter,
125

C-SPAN,
286

Cuba,
72
,
104
,
196

Cultural institutions,
288
–89,
291

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
(Hirsch),
255

Culture: car,
38

   consumer,
6

   popular,
14
,
17
,
68
,
178
,
197
,
291

“Culture wars,”
xii
,
3
,
12
,
260
,
264
–65,
265
n
31,
269
,
274

The Culture of Narcissism
(Lasch),
69

CWA (Concerned Women for America),
134
,
136
,
261
,
267

Cyprus,
4

Czech Republic,
392

Dallas,
185

Dams and water projects,
112
–13

Darwinian theories,
78
,
137
,
145
,
266

The David Letterman Show,
282

Davis, Rennie,
185

Day care,
271

The Day After,
205

Dayton Peace Accords,
370
–71

De La Beckwith, Byron,
305

Death penalty,
42
,
42
n
74,
79
,
222
,
249
,
291
,
365
,
365
n
68

Death Wish,
42

Deaver, Michael,
153
,
160

Debt: credit card,
279
–80

   federal, of Bush, George H. W.,
246

   increase in,
63
–64

Declaration of Principles,
335

Decline of the American Era
(Hacker),
62

Deep Throat,
47
,
48

The Deer Hunter,
100

Defense contracts,
59

Defense of Marriage Act in 1996,
373

Defense Planning Guidance,
228
,
229
n
26

Defense policies, of Bush, George W.,
403

Defense spending,
154
,
162
,
200
–202,
200
n
13,
222

   2000 election and,
406

   of Bush, George H. W.,
229
,
229
n
27

   of Carter,
124

   of Clinton,
336
–37,
337
n
51

Deficits, of federal government,
12
,
65
,
112
,
249

DeLay, Tom,
325

Democracy, nations turning to,
195

Democratic Leadership Council.
See
DLC

Democratic National Committee,
1
,
145

Democrats.
See also
Election(s): changes of,
78
–79

   conservative,
79

   liberals,
79
–80,
84
,
85
,
94
,
110
,
402