Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (79 page)

Leno, Jay,
343

Lesbians.
See
Gays/gay rights Levi, Edward,
73

Lewinsky, Monica,
387
–99

Liberal activists: in 1970s,
78
–79

   civil rights and,
24
,
25

Liberal elites,
80

Liberals/liberalism: America and,
257
,
260
,
264
,
267
,
269
–70

   Carter and,
113
,
115
,
128

   Clinton and,
322
,
365
,
375
,
395

   in Democratic Party,
79
–80,
84
,
85
,
94
,
110
,
402

   Reagan and,
153
,
170
,
177
,
179
,
186
,
242

Libya,
198
,
383

Lichter, Robert,
289

Lieberman, Joseph,
404
–5,
408

“Lies That Matter,”
393

Limbaugh, Rush,
324

Lin, Maya,
183
The Lion King,
287

Litigation,
275
–77

Livingston, Robert,
396

Lobbies/lobbyists,
87
,
88
,
90

Lockerbie, Scotland,
198

Los Angeles,
244
–45

Los Angeles Herald American,
53

Love Canal,
117
–18,
119

Lovelace, Linda,
48

Loving v. Virginia,
310
,
310
n
52

Lumumba, Patrice,
72

Luttwak, Edward,
346

Lynch, Peter,
351

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,
171

MacBeth,
288

MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour,
286

MAD (mutual assured destruction),
103
,
201
,
204

Madonna,
280
,
282
,
284
,
287

Magaziner, Ira,
329

Magazines, America and,
284

Magnetic resonance imaging.
See
MRIs

Major League Baseball Players Union,
58

Malcolm X,
xi
,
266

Mamet, David,
288

Mansfield, Harvey,
345

Mansfield, Mike,
5

Manufacturing: of automobiles,
7

   changes in,
62

Mapplethorpe, Robert,
261
–62

Marcus Welby, M.D.,
71

Marriott International,
281
,
361

Mars,
60

Marshall, Thurgood,
16
,
20
,
31
,
83

Mary Tyler Moore Show,
46
,
53

M*A*S*H,
188

Materialism,
184
–86,
185
n
100

Mayaguez,
101
–2

Mayer, Edward,
100

McCain, John,
368
,
405

McCarthy, Eugene,
105

McCarthyism,
xi
,
89

McCartney, Bill,
257

McDonald’s,
57
,
65
,
197

McEntire, Reba,
287

McFarlane, Robert “Bud,”
208
–9,
213
,
213
n
39

McGovern, George,
80
,
150

McPherson, James,
288

McVeigh, Timothy,
261
,
367

“Me Decade,”
14
,
69

Mean Streets,
13

Means-tested programs,
165
,
322

Meany, George,
65
,
114

Mechanization,
63

Media,
10
,
11
,
80
–82,
87
,
89
,
91
,
95
,
105
,
255
,
257
,
260
,
265
–69,
276
–77,
284
–86,
289
,
291
,
293
,
297
,
304

Medicaid,
16
,
67
,
80
,
90
,
114
,
165
,
184
,
371

Medicare,
67
,
80
,
90
,
113
,
184
,
248
,
321
,
371
,
374
,
392

Meese, Edwin,
160
,
210
–12

Mellon-Scaife, Richard,
132

The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening
(Wolfe),
69

Mexico,
125
,
198
,
292
,
295
,
299
,
300
,
302
,
333
–34

Miami Herald,
220

Microsoft,
59
,
361

Middle East,
126
,
207
,
230
–38,
335
–36,
343
,
379

Military: affirmative action and,
28

   America’s policies of,
12

   Reagan’s expenditures for,
154
,
162
,
200
–202,
200
n
13

   sexual preference policy of,
328

Milken, Michael,
14
,
14
n
5

Millennials,
269

Milliken v. Bradley,
20
–22,
20
n
20,
29

Million Man March,
309

Milosevic, Slobodan,
340
,
368
–71,
400
–401

Minimum wage,
63
,
350
,
373

Minorities,
11
,
26
,
27
,
67
,
113
,
241
,
317

Miranda v. Arizona,
31
,
41
,
41
n
72

Missouri v. Jenkins,
366

Mobility,
8
,
153
,
158
,
259

Modern Liberalism and American Decline
(Bork),
254

Mogadishu.
See
Somalia Mondale, Walter,
74
,
105
,
112
,
128
,
188
–89

“Monicagate,”
390
,
398

Monica’s Story,
399

The Monkey Wrench Gang
(Abbey),
116

Montenegro,
401

Moral Majority,
138
–40,
140
n
79,
141
n
81,
145
,
256