Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (81 page)

   presidency of,
80
,
95
,
131

   resignation of,
xi
,
1
–2,
1
n
1,
10

   Vietnam and,
2
,
77

NMD (National Missile Defense) program,
403

No Child Left Behind Act of 2002,
240

Non-English speaking students,
24

Noriega, Manuel,
208
,
226
–27

Norma Rae,
53

North American Free Trade Agreement.
See
NAFTA

North Korea,
196
,
336
,
340
–41,
340
n
58,
379
,
383
,
384

North, Oliver “Ollie,”
208
–11,
213

NOW (National Organization for Women),
52
,
134

NRA (National Rifle Association),
325
,
344

NSC (National Security Council),
208
,
209
,
335

Nuclear reactor,
118
,
118
n
27

Nuclear weapons: China and,
196

   disarmament of,
194
–95,
201
,
205
,
215
–17,
402
,
406
,
424

   Hussein and,
230
,
233
,
236

   India and,
4
,
383

   NATO and,
205

   North Korea and,
340
,
340
n
58,
379

   Pakistan and,
383

   Russia and,
196

   Soviet Union and,
215
,
336

   U.S. and,
4
,
102
,
108
,
116
,
118
,
121
,
123
,
196
,
205
,
229
,
336

NYPD Blue,
286

Obscenity,
136
,
136
n
68

Obstruction of justice,
390
,
393

Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
See
OSHA

O’Connor, Sandra Day,
366

Office of Economic Opportunity,
95

Office of Management and Budget.
See
OMB

Oil: crises,
65
,
120

   demand for,
7
,
7
n
16

   embargo of,
7
,
65

   for food,
236

   price of,
7
,
74
,
97
,
124
,
127
,
163
,
163
n
30,
355

   protection of,
233

Oklahoma City, bombing in,
261
,
276
,
367

Old Time Gospel Hour,
138

Olympic Games,
123
,
123
n
41

Oman,
237

OMB (Office of Management and Budget),
27
,
165

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
6

One Nation, Two Cultures
(Himmelfarb),
264

O’Neill, Thomas “Tip,”
87
,
110
–11,
112
,
120
,
151
,
153
,
154
,
159

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries),
xii
,
7
,
97
,
124
,
127
,
163

Operation Desert Storm,
236

Operation Just Cause,
227

Operation Rescue,
178
,
243
,
260
,
261
n
20

The Oprah Winfrey Show,
171
,
281

Order of the Sons of Italy in America,
30

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
See
OPEC

Ortega, Daniel,
208

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration),
116

Oslo Accords,
335
–36

Oswald, Lee Harvey,
72
,
276

Outsourcing,
64
,
347
,
357

The Oxford History of the United States,
xi
,
xii
,
xiii

PACS (Political Action Committees),
87
,
88
,
90

Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza (shah),
124
–25

Pakistan,
196
,
383

Palestine Liberation Organization.
See
PLO

Pan American Airways flight
103
,
198

Panama Canal,
104
,
121
–22,
146
,
227

Partisan polarization,
81
–82,
81
n
14,
90
,
100
,
324
,
326
,
346
,
386
,
398
,
423

A Passage to India,
287

Pastore, John,
96

PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization),
157
–58,
159
,
170

Patterson, James,
xi
–
xiii

Patterson, Orlando,
305

Pentagon,
60

People,
6
,
284

“People of color,”
307

People’s Republic of China,
121
,
196
,
199
,
228
,
402

Perestroika,
214

Perjury,
390
,
393

Perot, H. Ross,
83
,
251
,
253
,
326
,
377

Persian Gulf,
123
,
198
,
232
,
232
n
34,
381

Personal computers,
xii
,
59
–60,
272

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act,
374

Peru,
198

Philippines,
122

Pierce, Samuel,
162

Pinochet, Augusto,
72
,
103
,
103
n
71,
195

Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
184

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey,
243
n
60

Playboy,
105

PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization),
207
,
335
–37,
384
,
412
,
412
n
55

The Plug-In Drug,
259

Poindexter, John,
193
,
209
,
210
–11,
213

Poland,
205
,
392

Policies: defense, of Bush, George W.,
403

   federal, “Urban crisis” and,
38

   free trade,
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,
226
,
251
,
333
–35,
360
–62,
402
,
403