1. George H.W. Bush & William Jefferson Clinton
APUSH

2. President George H.W. Bush
Inherited Reagan’s problems
BUSH’S DOMESTIC POLICY –
•Promised America “no new taxes!”
•Broke his promise when the budget deficit mounted.

3. BUSH’S FOREIGN POLICY Cold War ends –
Communist governments in Eastern Europe crumble.
•1991 – Soviet Union dissolves – forms the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Berlin Wall removed at the end of Reagan’s Presidency

4. Persian Gulf War: 1990 – 1991
Saddam Hussein   orders an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
Bush orders troops to fend off the Iraqi attack.
•U.S. air forces, in conjunction with
United Nations forces, pummel Iraq.
Saddam Hussein signs a cease-fire agreement, ending the Persian Gulf War.

5. Election of 1992
What role did third party candidate Ross Perot play in the election?

6. President Bill Clinton:1993 – 2001
CLINTON’S DOMESTIC POLICY
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Health-Care Reform: submitted a plan to Congress that would ensure health care to all Americans. It was rejected.
Social Security: the number of people taking money from Social Security than contributing - Why?
Clinton ran into repeated roadblocks with the Majority Republican congress led by Newt Gingrich
Issues:
Balanced budget
Welfare reform
NAFTA
Scandals

7. Scandals of the Clinton Presidency
Whitewater –The Clintons were accused of having some involvement in an illegal real estate scheme in Arkansas.
They were never formally charged.
Monica Lewinsky: President Clinton was accused of lying under oath about his relationship with the White House intern during a Whitewater investigation
Results???
The biggest period of
economic growth in our nation’s history occurred
during the Clinton presidency.