Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (78 page)

Iraqi Arabs,
4

Iron Curtain,
102

IRS (Internal Revenue Service),
137
–38,
138
n
72,
168
,
351

Islamic jihad,
198

Israel,
7
,
122
,
335
–36,
412
,
412
n
55

Israeli-Arab hostilities,
206
–7

It Seemed Like Nothing Happened
(Carroll),
14

Italy,
30
,
40
,
198
,
372

Jackson, Henry,
102
,
105
,
122

Jackson, Jesse,
114
,
171
,
190
,
220
,
252
,
367

Jackson, Maynard,
16

Jackson, Michael,
185
,
280

Jackson-Vanik Amendment,
102

Jacobellis v. Ohio,
136
n
68

Jails,
186
,
213
,
273
,
274

Japan,
43
,
63
,
203
–4

Japanese-American Redress Act of 1988,
172
,
172
n
60

Jarvis, Howard,
66
,
133

The Jeffersons,
16
,
16
n
10

“Jerry Ford and His Flying Circus: A Presidential Diary,”
93

The Jerry Springer Show,
281

Jewish emigration,
102

Jewish students,
30

Jews, Muslims v.,
4

JFK,
276

Jingle All the Way,
285

Job growth,
169
,
169
n
55

Job security,
64

Jobs, Steven,
59

John Paul II,
69
,
144
,
204

Johnson, Haynes,
394

Johnson, Lyndon,
2
,
7
,
72
,
78
,
90
,
93

Joint Economic Committee of Congress,
155

Jones, Paula Corbin,
342
–43,
388
–89,
391
,
393
,
394
,
394
n
19

Jong, Erica,
46

Jordan,
382

Jordan, Hamilton,
111

Jordan, Michael,
279
,
285

Jordan, Vernon,
17

The Joy of Sex
(Comfort),
48

Jurassic Park,
287

Kakutani, Michiko,
319

Kassebaum-Kennedy bill,
373

Katz, Michael,
375

Kazantzakis, Nikos,
261

Kefauver, Estes,
259

Keillor, Garrison,
287

Kemp, Jack,
155
,
372
–73

Kennedy, Anthony,
366

Kennedy, Edward “Ted,”
1
,
20
,
39
,
110
,
128
,
150

Kennedy, John,
14
,
78

   assassination of,
xi
,
5
,
9
,
72
–73,
73
n
92,
92
,
276

Kennedy, Paul,
202
,
255

Kennedy, Robert,
14
,
72

   assassination of,
xi

Kennerly, David Hume,
99

Kenya,
381
,
392

Kerrey, Robert,
247
,
368

Kerry, John,
83
,
368
,
421

Keynesian economics,
6
,
109
,
112
,
132
,
168

Khan, A. G.,
383

Khmer Rouge,
101

Khomeini, Ruhollah (ayatollah),
xii
,
124
–26,
207
,
210

Kilpatrick, James J.,
2

Kim Il Sung,
198

King, Billie Jean,
53

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
14

   assassination of,
xi
,
5
,
40
,
73
,
277

   national holiday for,
171

King, Rodney,
244
–45,
245
n
64,
312

Kinte, Kunta,
17

Kissinger, Henry,
95
,
98
,
101
,
103
,
124

Klein, Joe,
328

Koop, C. Everett,
136
–37,
177
,
179
,
181

Kopechne, Mary Jo,
128

Koppel, Ted,
286

Korea,
100

Korean Air Lines passenger jet,
205
,
206

Koresh, David,
237

Kosovo,
400
–402,
402
n
35

Kosovo Liberation Army of Muslims,
400

Kramer, Larry,
181

Krauthammer, Charles,
100

Krugman, Paul,
293

Kurds,
4
,
230
,
236
,
237

Kushner, Tony,
288

Kuwait,
230
–38,
336

Kyoto Protocol,
379
,
379
n
100

Labor unions: affirmative action and,
25

   strength lost by,
78
,
170
,
184
,
353

   strikes and lockouts and,
64
–65,
158
n
13

   support of,
323
,
323
n
15,
334
.
See also
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LaHaye, Beverly,
134

LaHaye, Tim,
134
,
134
n
60,
138

Laos,
99
,
101
,
196

Larry King Live,
251
,
285

Lasch, Christopher,
69
,
142

Last Tango in Paris,
46
,
48

The Last Temptation of Christ,
261

Latinos/Latin America,
26
,
295
,
297
,
299
,
303

Lau v. Nichols,
35

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
27

A League of Their Own,
287

Leahy, Patrick,
84

Leave It to Beaver,
187

Lebanon,
195
,
196
,
200
,
207
,
210

Legacy, of 1960s,
257

Legislation, immigration,
293
,
295
–96,
298
–300,
385