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the Clinton years as one story and characterizes it is it was too frustrated by years in political exile put him in the office talking about some fairly liberal thing and that's the end of the story General Emmons basically Southern Democrat Senators plus the Republicans were the majority so when you look at what happened to Clinton he lost on any issues because majority in the Congress did not like anyone on the issues that they like mainly NASA or opening trade to China what's the information for NASA North American Free Trade Agreement is an idea that first surfaced in the 19th century Canadian Americans really figure that why shouldn't we unify even more in lower barriers cuz the barriers are already so low and the closest trading partners in World automobile trade-in parts and accessories across so on the Mexican side and on the American side to the Clinton Administration that this free or trade across the borders between the u.s. and will lead to Greater Prosperity rare development losing jobs you see big companies using now their ability to go to Mexico to bargain down wages and working conditions here you see no protections for the environment and that's what began to create a kind of populist outcry in this country against the agreement change can be painful for a lot of people in and even on a community level sometimes but doesn't mean in the end it's not the success very politicize now and certainly the empty globalized crowd home after 2 before we can really talk station  Benton success on the trade front and in getting a budget passed that increases taxes and decreases federal spending overshadowed by his failure to achieve a major reform of the nation's Healthcare System she already because of the way our healthcare system has failed us and important implications for for the states and sooner actions with the Medicaid Program generally they were oriented toward growth of the national Plymouth  current health system is a mess it is largely a mass because of government chapter that goes against the grain with can't have a player's forced to do that is health care and others is the Democratic party as it faces the congressional election of 1994 which had a partisan strategy for hanging all bad turn on the Democratic Congress and it succeeded and when it succeeded what happened was that a large number of seats the Democrats have been winning for suddenly taken by public wholesale reductions in the federal government would be proposed the abolition of Cabinet departments for Commerce City energy and education the elimination of scores of other federal agencies and major changes in programs like welfare and a Medicaid and Medicare entitlement programs in order to help Finance Cuts in federal taxes ultimate goal was to eliminate the welfare state and replace it with something he called me opportunity Society  President Clinton songs by shifting his own agenda to the center  English made a mistake into acting like a prime minister because all attention was on him and I is the president Republican Congress turn it down by President Clinton and ultimately publicans were forced to back down so the dramatic change was proposing did not occur by the time the 1996 presidential campaign moves around President Clinton has rebounded from his mid-term defeat and it's in a in position to win reelection is greatest strength the remarkable success of the American economy and the reduction of the federal debt play of activity before the election race is the minimum wage for the first time in more than a decade and confront the issue of welfare reform did the seventies and into the eighties and leading into the 1990s almost every initiative to just supposedly reform welfare was about figuring out how put the screws on it and fiercer away and so we also met Lee arrive at 1996 with the personal response work opportunity reconciliation act which perform but it was a combination that stop me far more than anyone would have predicted the team with significant new federal mandates to limit welfare recipients only receiving benefits for 2 years of the tie or to a maximum of five years over their lifetime those were national standards imposed over the objections of Millie stay to thought they might not be workable over the long-term especially if there was a major downturn in the economy of the cancer does are arguing look with created affirmative action programs with created anti-poverty programs the Great Society program anti-discrimination program can I have two B's programs with created we get these increases and these social dislocation  and the customer was said to have a strong their message resonated with the general population  Bill Clinton begins his second for years with Thompson's the only Democrat to be elected to a second term since Franklin Goes to plan for a balanced budget and tax credits for middle class family early in 1990 scandals letting sexual misconduct again to surface  I was one who was very surprised by the allegations special surprise by the grimy details disappointment straightforward about what happened have sexual relations with that woman that's why I hate my greatest sense of disappointment came out over this relationship but over the aftermath because the person we intro my office has to be accountable to the people break into the abusive power of the use of federal law enforcement officials to do things that shouldn't have been down in years of very different environment than a sexy Anna add the president maybe or maybe did not lie about depending on how you define certain terms in the questions he was asked by an aggressive play on December 19th 1998 voting along party lines the house approves two counts of impeachment against Bill Clinton lying do a grand jury and obstructing justice  the matter then moves to the tenant or a trial of the president first 1868 movie January 7th of the United States articles of impeachment against William Jefferson did you notice the Chief Justice corrected members are they spoke of themselves as jurors is that you're not sure this is political the Congress thinking the place repeat and changing the executive and peach went for this kind of animals it is therefore order than a judge if the said William Jefferson Clinton be any here by is acquitted of the charges in the said article the last two years of the Clinton presidency are relatively quiet can history  it was the first since 1880 something that a candidate won Preston see through the Electoral College and didn't get a majority of the popular vote  good morning brings news from Florida that the final vote count their shows a secretary Cheney and I  have carried the State of Florida and it sat results is confirmed an automatic recount as we expected and we have won the election matter how many rush to judgment we will therefore diggers for your poems the gore campaign efforts to keep me Counting truck took it so you think they would say realistic big should we go out this weekend. The reason because the recount the correct it makes no sense the decision by Florida justices is appealed to the nation's highest court Supreme Court is Express saying that it is not reversing the Florida Supreme Court I was getting calls from people that I had work with as far as Ministers of other countries are prime minister saying what is wrong with your sister what's wrong with the cray the Mox and I would tell him nothing is wrong we're going to resolve this and we're going to resolve it with full respect for the rule of law turn on some guinea pigs not going to be riots and we're going to get through anything we have last two decades of the twentieth century produce dramatic changes in American life changes that to some extent or the result of amazing transformation of the American does a long period when us productivity was Far short of that of Europe something change dramatically solidation manufacturing even though those companies were laying off people and reducing their side their awesome new ways of producing goods and services they were major changes in distribution methods by time you get the 1990s we have this platform on which we can bill for this huge product from 1994 to 2000 United States record economic growth the first sign of trouble the Curve attacked by a steep decline in the stock market and yet the trend toward a global economy continues one of the great fears of many Americans is the golden patience making it more difficult for us to control in place to control or currency to for my banking systems coming more Global as well but it's also making it difficult people fear for us to control the standards that we use for governing and judging our society culture has gone Global and they all have big companies have factories everywhere same shopping malls are everywhere companies are integrating Us in ways they never did for what concerns about the pressures that places on American businesses in American Ultra printers for competing now with countries in which environment San Fran summer slower were concerned about the pressures of globalization places on the relatively High Larry Sanders the American Workforce that achieves open Shuffle Generations the labor movement has to do is reach out to those other groups environmental groups who want to put some sort of limit on Catholic talking about transforming American capitalism to end it they brother want that to happen  what they want is a system that has more just the problem that faces people who have these concerns is that there's no real answer to them you can't really put the face back in the tube of so to speak once you have a global economy at can't become National, you can by the end of the 20th century the American population is growing larger older and More Diapers who's becoming increasingly skewed over the last many years so we have a rapidly growing wealthy class of people of 20 40% of population we have a Shirley's tag neuter only modestly growing middle class and then we have a lower class 1% certain light that has gained virtually nothing in the last 25 years in fact the bottom V their incomes I really think mine instead of Lee and the joking American sure there are plenty of jobs I've got three of them you know to keep the keep supporting the family  the Aging of the country's population also has important if not entirely predictable implications advances in medical care and lifestyle people living longer a much greater Elation of people over 65 and ever before and of course this leads to the political organization of the elderly consistently the number lobbying organization in fortunes annual power 25 survey is a group that doesn't have a political action committee gives no campaign Khan is the American Association of retired persons 33 million members many of whom are so well organized by what's the headquarters that they can defeat any candidates for office who headquarters says is out to harm Social Security or two major programs for senior citizens care most about feminist groups drama tracking attention once you are ready to mobilize issues of concern ride it may not get all the publicity it did in the early years but a whole generation has come of age expecting reproductive Choice Fair labor laws access to the professions including law Addison and politics and ready to mobilize when they have major to see whether it's raising this respectful ratzman in the election of women to weather is restrictions on access to abortion or the restrictions on funding health care for birth control PlayStation 2 after ready to mobilize another dimension of the colorful Patchwork that is America is the growing diversity of this nation population  one of the central concerns in today's public discourse and even his store lights is how much diversity can a nation hold what culture the emergence of new at the communities in the United States that so far at least have not assimilated in the way we've come to expect what is happening in the United States is that American groups are forming these collectives these Financial collectives in which a loan money to each other and start Ontario businesses and things of this sort and that's created tensions in our culture and some unhappiness with immigration but those tensions cannot compete with the tremendous demand for labor that has in fact created larger Baby Boom generation Houston Workforce and you would imagine a day in which the economy halt no one to harvest the Tomato no one to wash the car to wash the dishes restaurant 604 occupations which for decades have been monopolizing many places by Mexican immigrants  what's the question Pursuits in public debates does increasing diversity undermine or strengthen the nation's be able to express your difference and still be 100% America and with the level of inter stop an inter-ethnic contact marriage that we have in society today I don't think it's possible anymore to go back to piety that is stratified solely on the basis of the England Saxons majority on top another factor to drive the wedge in public opinion is the nation's position in the world order the countries interventionist foreign policy bubble when you're looking at a particular problem as to whether or not you intervene you you must look at the principles and values that are in Risk but y'all how to look and see if there's a nationally because if you go in there and you start spending a lot of the taxpayers money and thickly if you start taking casualties American people won't support it for very long and you cannot sustain a farm policy that does not have sufficient domestic political support  many industrialized nations resent the intrusion of the industrialized West on any level and reasons are religious and cultural Wellness economic what should the world the United States is viewed as arrogant materialistic inflated and ultimate how does touch with the values of other nations the fact of American goods are ubiquitous in what parts of the world the fact next Americans seem to value a kind of materialistic Society the resentment of the huge amount of Natural Resources the world that we louder people don't have access to them and all of that creates frictions and intentions not just in the Islamic world but in the larger as well even though globalization isn't Imperial in the traditional sense I think many people understand that it is still very young Insurance of the way that they distribute the benefits of the global economy. Various designs of people are not getting the fear in fact the system operates preferentially in such a way that there is almost nothing it's some societies can actually do economically even with the best intentions it was the most honest stration better that condition I think the United States has to figure out how to operate in both the post-vietnam world and the post 9/11 World Play Active engage Grohl and not simply be the focus of the resentment because of American materialism American arrogance and American unwilling what sort of function is more open with rest of the world  for September 11th 2001 American stop terrorism as a problem that plagued other nations certainly not their home country  United States a store clerk has been country that has been protected by the two oceans and is never really experienced anything quite like this President Bush said shortly after and 11 Step fight against terrorism in the finding mission of his administration  this is a long-term battle war battles I just blocked her mission is not just the Sama Bin Laden the outside organization is the battle terrorism in 2002 the Bush Administration seeks to define the threat and the country's response to it in a document called the National Security strategy of the United States ideas are already very controversial and I'm not taking and on which side is right but I do want to know the significance of the issues and the debate that's going with that we have redefined what journeyman geographical  second is Theory defined as a function of time for all of our history the great threats security took time to emerge you could see them you could react well now the threats are emerging from Roots that can Wheels destructive power what's the other two were only available to stink  and the third grade read at the mission is the new role values of playing in the redefinition of our national security the Bush Administration is willing to make judgments about other nations are good or bad whether they're on the right path or the wrong path why pause the future conflicts or more within Society than they are between arguments about the future the Muslim world will be resolved inside those country watch people deciding whether they will embrace the pluralistic Vision or an apocalyptic vision of a single cream swallowing up or destroying all other competitors America's engage in lead it must be willing to make hard and unpopular judgements inconvenient judgments about poor countries are on the right path for the wrong pants and these are the kinds of issues our country is going to have to debate in the years ahead  historians stop by Nature predictive most imagine that the new era will continue to be fraught with uncertainty your people don't know whether if I open that next letter is it going to contain Anthrax Force if I go into the subway is it going to blow up if I go to work as soon Russian airliner into it in the hope is it that was work on people's resolved and they will get tired and that is through the invidious part of terrorism resenting challenge it's an enemy that is Meister Berlin  and they are they're organized if they're there their they're network is expensive they have no there what rules I think we understand the policy makers operate and Hayes of uncertainty in the modern world in which it sounds impossible what is going to happen at any given fun take a look at the bushes Free Speech giving set on the same 40 powers to get out of town give the rationale for the United States going to war against Iraq weapons of mass destruction and he says next speech set to these weapons may not be as we don't know that they will be as possible they feel because but we do it anyway because we can't tell her it's the uncertainty  uncertainty and yet the events of the country has enjoy these last few years place like the great courage and Faith rich people bathe in the ideals upon which this country was founded and in the determination of committed men you work toward a more just future in this unfinished Nation The Unfinished nation is it 52 what American history series for more information about this program in a company materials call +1-800-576-2988 or visit us online at ww.w play. 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