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and opponents,
44

and re-election,
151

and stimulus,
18

and 2008 election,
147–148
,
158

Obesity and overweightness,
145

Occupy movement,
141
,
156
,
159

Oil,
25
,
26
,
37
,
38
,
127
,
132
,
136

Olson, Mancur,
51

Open-sourcing,
74

Ottomans,
1
,
115

Overholt, Bill,
122

Packwood, Bob,
40
,
41

PACs,
50
,
51

Pakistan,
124

Palestinians,
131

Panama,
112

Panama Canal,
123

Pareto, Vilfredo,
72

Patriotism,
7
,
90
,
139

Peace Corps,
112

Peace with Mexico
(Gallatin),
106

Pensions,
x
,
xii
,
141

declines and cuts in,
79
,
90

and ethics of caring and personal responsibility,
145

and financial crash,
10

and saving,
79

and state and local governments,
2
,
4
,
33–34

and taxes,
52

Perot, Ross,
147
,
151

Pershing, John J.,
109

Philippines,
107

Phillips, David Graham,
137

Pin Ni,
82

Plato,
41

Political consultants,
12
,
14

Political paralysis and gridlock,
xii
,
xiii
,
41
,
44
,
152

Political parties,
xii

and campaign finance,
49

duopoly of,
146–153

and independents,
142–143
,
146
,
150

and moral language versus policy language,
144

and neglect of problems,
1

and political stalemate,
44

and selfishness,
63

and socializing,
141

third,
146
,
147
,
148
,
149
,
151–153

Political system,
xii
,
xiii
,
7

Pollutants,
89

Populist Party,
137

Poverty and the poor,
7
,
69
,
75
,
76
,
122
,
128
,
141

Press.
See
Mass media

Prince, Charles O.,
57

Prisons,
33

Progressive Party,
137

Public goods,
25
,
101

Public lands,
102

Public relations,
2
,
4

Public sphere,
95
,
96

Racial issues,
9
,
120
,
138
,
147
,
148

Reagan, Ronald

determination of,
7

and foreign policy,
113

and government,
98–99
,
100
,
101

and taxes,
36
,
98
,
99

and transportation bill,
26

and Washington club's smugness,
14

Reed, Kasim,
33–34

Refugees,
65

Regulation,
53
,
56–57
,
63

Reinhart, Carmen,
20

Religion,
3

Republican Party

and building national organization,
144

and congressional districts,
142

and economic crisis,
34
,
44

and ethic of personal responsibility,
145

and government,
97–101

and jobs,
143

and moral language,
144

and self-identification,
143

and Tea Party,
101
,
159

and third parties,
146

voting for,
143–144

Retirement,
35
,
40
,
41
,
58
,
79
,
117
,
118
,
145

Rhodium Group,
83

Rice, Condoleezza,
100

Riggio, Len,
73

Roberts, John,
50
,
51

Rockefeller, Nelson,
98

Rogoff, Kenneth,
20

Romans,
1
,
41–42
,
115

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR),
97

canniness and courage of,
7
,
92

“Four Freedoms” address of,
111

and Great Depression,
25
,
91–95
,
102
,
155

swearing in and inaugural address of,
91–94
,
98

Roosevelt, James,
91
,
92

Roosevelt, Theodore

and campaign finance,
49
,
51

and foreign policy,
108

and government,
96
,
97
,
98

and 1908 and 1912 elections,
146–147

tough progressivism of,
7

Roubini, Nouriel,
19

Rove, Karl,
100
,
149

Russia,
6
,
29
,
108
,
113
,
118
,
121
,
123

Rwanda,
113

Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
61

Sany,
125

Sarsour, Linda,
119

Savings-and-loan crisis,
13

Schlesinger, Arthur M.,
105

Securities & Exchange Commission,
58

Seidman, Dov,
73

Selflessness and unselfishness,
15
,
63–74
,
101

September 11 attacks,
70–71
,
104
,
114

Serbia,
113
,
114

Seventeenth Amendment,
138

Shays, Daniel,
43

Showdown at Gucci Gulch
,
37

Siemens,
81
,
85

Simpson, Alan,
143

Singapore,
27
,
117
,
122

Single parents,
85

Sirius Satellite Radio,
63–64
,
69

Smith, Howard K.,
97

Social Security,
xi

and bankruptcy,
34–35

compromise,
143

and deficit reduction,
32

and foreigners,
118

and ideological Republicans,
98
,
100

and Nixon,
97

privatizing,
100
,
144

protecting,
145

and reform,
40
,
41

taxes,
18
,
21
,
35
,
38
,
78
,
88
,
118

and taxes on “things,”
89

and transfers of money,
32

South Africa,
29

South Korea,
81
,
130

Southeast Asia,
122
,
123

Soviet Union,
92
,
111
,
112
,
113
,
133

Spain,
107

Sports,
3
,
71–72
,
73
,
90

Spousal abuse,
69

Sri Lanka,
124

Standards of living,
xiii
,
5
,
17
,
30
,
59
,
75
,
80
,
88
,
122
,
152
,
155
,
160

Stegner, Wallace,
136–137

Steinbeck, John,
90

Stewart, William,
136–137

Stimulus (economic)

and economy,
17–18
,
19–20

need for,
17
,
18
,
44

and public opinion,
18

and Republicans,
18

and tax cuts,
88

Stock market,
10
,
39–40
,
44
,
58

Sudan,
65

Supreme Court, U.S.,
49–51
,
60
,
149

Survey of Consumer Finances,
145

Taft, William Howard,
50
,
146–147

Taiwan,
27
,
122
,
129
,
130

Taliban,
127

Talmadge, Herman,
37

Tanner, Michael,
31–32

Tax breaks,
4
,
52

Tax cuts

and corporations,
37
,
39
,
87
,
88–89

and deficits,
38–39

and jobs,
22
,
25
,
89

and loopholes,
37
,
38

and Reagan,
36
,
98
,
99

reckless,
157

and Social Security,
88

and special interests,
52

and spending,
21

and stimulus,
88

Tax increases

and debt,
36

and deficits,
32
,
34
,
44

and downward mobility,
78

and gasoline,
38
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
89

and George H. W. Bush,
13

and politicians and political battles,
36
,
37
,
40

and Reagan,
36
,
99

and Social Security,
35

and top marginal individual rate,
39

and Washington club's smugness,
14

and wealthy,
103

Tax Reform Act of 1986,
37
,
38

Taxes

and bailouts,
47

and bills,
4
,
18

and budget balancing exercise of former U.S. senators,
40–41

death,
144

and deficits,
17
,
30
,
31
,
32
,
37
,
38–39

employment,
87
,
88–89

and financial transactions,
39–40

and infrastructure,
26

and jobs,
21
,
22
,
143
,
144

and King Louis XVI and Napoleon,
42
,
43

and loopholes,
32
,
36
,
37–38
,
52
,
87

and narrow interest versus general interest,
52

need for dramatic change in system,
88–89