Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (75 page)

   New,
190
,
329

   Reagan,
131
,
323

Demographics, of schools,
19
,
21
–23,
37
–38

Desegregation,
15
,
15
n
7,
22
,
67
,
366

Détente,
4
,
102
–4

Detroit,
25

Diana, Princess of Wales,
6
,
277

Dionne, E. J.,
375

Dirty Harry,
41

Disabled.
See
Handicapped

Disarmament,
194
–95,
201
,
205
,
215
–17,
402
,
406
,
424

Discrimination: against minorities,
11

   reverse,
30

   sex,
52

   against women,
9
,
11
,
55
,
271

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society,
303

Diversity,
26
,
32

Divorce: female employment and,
51
,
58

   rise in,
50
–51,
51
n
25,
183
,
271

DLC (Democratic Leadership Council),
190
,
221
,
248

Dobson, James,
134
,
266

Dog Day Afternoon,
13

Dole, Robert,
104
,
106
,
219
,
324
,
372
–73,
377
–78

Dollar, devaluation of,
7

Domestic policies: of Bush, George H. W.,
238
–40

   of Clinton,
252
,
272
,
318

   of Reagan,
154
,
156
–57,
162
,
170
,
191

Domestic terrorism,
12
,
198
,
379
–86,
383
n
111

Dominican Republic,
72

Donovan, Hedley,
157

Douglass, Frederick,
266

Dow Jones Industrial Average,
7
,
7
n
17,
170
,
203
,
350

Dr. Kildare,
71

Draft,
2
,
9

Draft evaders,
3
,
121

Drudge Report,
389
–90

Drugs,
41
,
227
,
268
,
273
,
406

Du Bois, W.E.B.,
15
,
316

Dukakis, Michael,
220
–24,
253

Dynasty,
185

Earned Income Tax Credit.
See
EITC

Easterbrook, Gregg,
117

Eastern Europe,
106

Eastwood, Clint,
6
,
41

eBay,
356

Economic equality,
18
,
304
–6

Economic policies: of Carter,
110
–13,
115
,
148

   of Ford,
96
–98

   of Nixon,
6
–7

   of Reagan,
158
–60,
162
–63,
166
–70,
169
n
53

Economic sanctions,
232
,
236
,
236
n
41,
336

Economics: Keynesian,
6
,
109
,
112
,
132
,
168

   supply side,
154
–55,
166
,
246

Economy: Carter and,
110
–13,
115
,
148

   Clinton and,
394
,
403
–4

   debt increase and,
63
–64

   as dependent,
347

   faltering of,
xii
,
6
,
7
,
33

   foreign competition’s impact on,
63

   government’s impact on,
59

   growth of,
9
,
11
,
58
–59,
224
,
290
,
346
,
357
,
378

   immigration and,
298

   in late 1970s,
62

   manufacturing changes in,
62

   mechanization and,
63

   minimum wage’s impact on,
63
,
350
,
373

   Nixon and,
6
–7

   outsourcing and,
64
,
347
,
357

   post-industrial society and,
62

   recovery of,
xii
,
366

   service jobs and,
62
,
62
n
59

   South and,
58
–59

   stagnation of,
59
,
74

   U.S. role in world,
61
–62,
360

   West and,
58
–59

Education: African Americans and,
19
–20,
19
n
18,
314
–16

   bilingual,
35
,
35
nn
55
–56,
36
,
85
,
292

   changes in,
53
–54

   inequities in,
315
–16,
353

   options in,
316

   sex,
45
,
137
,
180
,
266

   special,
36
,
36
n
57,
314

   spread of higher,
79

Education for All Handicapped Children Act,
35
,
36
n
58,
67

Education policies: of Bush, George H. W.,
238
–40

   of Clinton,
402

   of Ford,
36

Edwards, John,
275

EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission),
15
,
24
,
27
,
113
,
173
,
241
,
242
,
243

Egypt,
121
–22,
125
,
139
,
232
,
236

Eisenstadt v. Baird,
47
n
11

EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit),
113
,
165
,
333
,
375
,
378

El Salvador,
195
,
208
,
226

Election(s): of 1976,
76
,
76
n
3,
89
,
104
–7

   of 1980,
128
–33,
145
n
94,
147
–51,
149
n
105,
200

   of 1984,
189
–91

   of 1988,
218
–24,
238

   of 1992,
247
–53,
252
nn
76
–77,
292

   of 1996,
366
–79

   of 2000,
398
,
404
–25,
405
n
44,
409
n
51,
410
nn
52–53,
413
nn
56–57,
415
n
60,
416
nn
63–64,
417
n
65,
419
nn
69–71,
422
nn
75
–77