Week of April 24, Monday Lecture
I. Back to Normalcy
II. Economic Crisis and Stagflation
III. Ford: the Caretaker President
IMAGE:
Gerald Ford
IV. Jimmy
IMAGE:
Carter on the Campaign Trail, 1976
V. The Reagan Eighties
IMAGE:
Ronald Reagan
- Dismantling the Welfare State
- Deregulation of Industry in the Name of Free Enterprise
- Union Busting
- Military Build-up: The Cold War Returns
IMAGE: Oliver North &
Iran-Contra
- "Voodoo Economics"
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Federal Debt
- Government for the Wealthy
- A Major Turning Point
VI. The Bush Interregnum
IMAGE: George
Bush
VII. Clinton's Victory Was a Vote for Change
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1992 Campaign Debate
VIII. Challenges Remain
- Economy
- Political Alienation
- Government as the Problem Rather than the Solution
- Cultural and Social Uneasiness and Conflict
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Mark Kornbluh
