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History and the Ongoing Struggle
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Finis Dunaway
Published: 17 May 2021
...The epilogue reflects on the larger implications of Lenny Kohm’s story in relation to environmental-Indigenous alliances, the history of grassroots activism, and the rise of neoliberalism. It also considers the policies of various presidential administrations, including that of Bill Clinton...
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Published: 21 November 2024
...This chapter details Bill Clinton’s First Inaugural Address, which was just fourteen minutes long, but did not lack substance. After thanking his predecessor and others of his generation for their service and sacrifice, Clinton proclaims that a new generation has come to power, a generation raised...
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Published: 21 November 2024
...This chapter presents Bill Clinton’s Second Inaugural Address, which purports to give the American people a new choice that offers opportunity, demands responsibility, and gives citizens more say. Three familiar keywords stand out in Clinton’s speech: opportunity, responsibility, and community...
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Published: 29 November 2022
...: struggling, striving, and campaigning. Struggling presidents include Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush; coverage of these presidents running respectively became emblematic of the era of malaise and issues plaguing the presidency. In contrast, for the striving presidents – Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...
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Published: 29 November 2022
... in college – George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Both a very similar age, Clinton and Bush played rugby on different sides of the Atlantic, at Oxford and Yale respectively. It was a distinctly un-American sport in a period of increasing national self-reflection during the Vietnam War. This chapter considers...
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Naked Truths: Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Public Health, and Sex Education in the 1990s
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Tedi A. Pascarella
Published: 11 September 2023
...Dr. Joycelyn Elders, medical professional and public health advocate, rose against countless innumerable odds to the highest medical position in the United States of America under President Bill Clinton: surgeon general. Elders and her ideas regarding safe sex and birth control, for example...
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The Fight Begins
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Robert L. Fleegler
Published: 11 April 2023
... by the post-Watergate campaign finance reforms. At the convention, the Democrats debated the issue of Palestinian self-determination, foreshadowing an internal struggle that would grow over the next three decades. And Bill Clinton introduced himself to the nation with a convention speech that went completely...
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Enemies Foreign and Domestic: America’s Media Ecosystem and the Externalization of Domestic Threats
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Christopher J. Fuller
Published: 24 November 2024
... John French Electoral Commission Macron Emmanuel PEN Report kompromat misinformation media ecosystem propaganda Donald Trump Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton information warfare The year 2016’s bad tempered and divisive presidential election campaign exposed many of the deep-set divisions...
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Federalism in the world
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Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox
Published: 21 November 2019
... J United States US British North America Act Bill Clinton federalism inequality Quebec sex education C7.P1 The US government is the oldest continuing operating federal system, in large part because of its relatively high degree of stability and respect for the rule of law. But does that make...
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The Politics of Reform
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Robert Cherry and Robert Lerman
Published: 01 October 2011
... Democratic Party centrist policies Barack Obama Bill Clinton Having formulated policies that are based on sound assessments is one thing; to legislate them is another. In the November 2010 election, the outcome created a divided government. In one sense, it makes the recommended centrist policies more...
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Villains and Victims
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Nona Willis Aronowitz
Published: 01 May 2014
...This chapter examines the villain vs. victim card used in the debate over sexual politics in America. From the beginning conservatives used Paula Jones’s case not only to attack Bill Clinton but to accuse feminists of a hypocritical double standard. With the breaking of the scandal involving...
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Commodifying community: American community development and neoliberal hegemony
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Akwugo Emejulu
Published: 14 January 2015
...This chapter focuses on the micropolitics of community development from 1992 to 1997 in the United States. There are two discourses identified for analysis: The ‘Revitalisation discourse’ constituted by the texts, language and practices of official state actors in President Bill Clinton’s...
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Published: 09 June 2015
... Donald Conway Anne Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Merryday Steven Douglas Moreland Don Weeks Jason First Amendment Florida Supreme Court Ippolito Emilio Mokdad Susan Carlton Fran Monk Robert Peluso Tony Pierce William Luther Vanbiber Todd Bill Clinton judicial appointments Janet Reno...
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The home state advantage is dead … long live the home state advantage!
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Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko
Published: 01 February 2016
... advantage Paul Ryan Bill Clinton George W. Bush The perception of a vice presidential home state advantage remains widespread among a range of important actors – including journalists, campaign insiders, and presidential candidates – who influence or potentially influence the vice presidential selection...
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Published: 01 March 2008
... with growing support for campaign finance reform. These advocacy efforts played out against the backdrop of continuing appeals by Bill Clinton's administration to mainline-church leaders for public involvement and moral unity to help sway voters and members of Congress to its policies. Such engagement...
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Published: 25 April 2016
... and its power under the presidency of Bill Clinton – namely how it was wielded to pass a host of long-term conservative public policy goals including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and welfare reform. Secondly, this chapter details how Republican-aligned conservative think tanks—rather...
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Kosovo: Not Perfect, but Tolerable
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Brendan R. Gallagher
Published: 15 September 2019
... International Independent Commission on Kosovo Paris Roland Bush George W Tierney Dominic Wilson Woodrow counterfactuals postwar planning Kosovo Bill Clinton Madeleine Albright Slobodan Milosevic Serbia NATO KFOR UNMIK ethnic violence I was determined not to lose the peace. Madeleine ...
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Bill Clinton and America’s Credibility after the Cold War
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Keren Yarhi-Milo
Published: 11 September 2018
...This chapter evaluates the dispositional theory against the crisis decision making of President Bill Clinton. Of all the presidents studied in this book, Clinton comes closest to an ideal-type high self-monitor. A review of both quantitative and qualitative indicators of military assertiveness from...
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Conduct Unbecoming
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Andrew E. Stoner
Published: 15 May 2019
... Freedom of Information Act Douglas MacArthur Bill Clinton Presidential primaries Thomas Dooley Deliver Us from Evil Catholic Church Legion of Merit late-stage syphilis chronic syphilis St. Maritn’s Press Michael Denneny Barry Barbieri Guerneville California Peter Jennings Ross Perot Joint...
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Bill Clinton and the Middle East: From “Enlargement” to “Dual Containment”
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Douglas Little
Published: 02 May 2016
...With the demise of the red threat, Bill Clinton expected globalization to trump militarism and “enlarge” the area of freedom. America’s technological prowess and financial power would contain rogue states, combat international outlaws, and curb ethnic violence. Determined to broker peace between...
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