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=BUSH TAKES OVER=

THE ELECTION OF 1988
//: George Bush SR. was the obvious choice for most Americans after the Reagan administration. -Bush had loyal supporters for more than 8 years but was only in office for 4 years. -There was more than a half dozen people that led the charge to win the presidency over Bush, but two main people were MASS. Governor **Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson.** - Jesse Jackson had a lot of African American support, but Dukakis and Bush battled it out on the Television. - On election day Bush received 53 percent of the popular vote to win the presidency,// The New President//- Bush had a wide range to the white house,as a fighter pilot in WW2 he won a medal for bravery. - He promised a new era different than REAGAN he exclaimed.//

The New President
//-Bush brought a wide variety// to the white house, had being a WW2 pilot and won a award for bravery. - He said that this was a new era, and that it would be different from the Reagan era. - The new president went along with caution, as he tried to keep some policies from Reagan, but still controll the congress with his own.

Drugs, Education, and the Environment.
//- During the election Bush stated that they really needed to control the wide range of illegal drugs - Promised a chart a new course towards a better environment. - One major problem was that there was so much nuclear waste, and Bush wanted to get rid of it.//

The Savings and Loan Crisis
//- The savings put a lot of pressure on the government finances. - Started S and Ls. - Bush set agencies for the Failed banks in the past.//

Reducing the Deficit
- //The savings and Loan crisis added to the growing deficit in the federal budget. -Through most of the 90's the government struggled over a budget to lower the deficit. - After the act was passed the President was trying and thinking about adding new taxes to help the cost. He also was going to set a tax-cuts for investors and their stocks. He argued that setting the new tax-cuts and also adding the new taxes would help stimulate the government again. - after arguing till late in the night the government and bush came to a deal, that would cut the deficit by nearly 500 billion over 5 years, Increasing taxes on ciggarates, alcohol, and gasoline.//

The Election of 1990
//- The new budget plan cut more deficit than any other plan in// the Reagan era. - But many Americans thought that the government in Washington D.C was wrangled over the whole thing. They thought they saw a congress who couldn't make difficult choices. - So far Bush was torn apart from many Americans saying that he also couldn't make a direct solution towards the budget problem. -During the election voters saw very angry congress members, who selected many different governors for each state. - Only 4 out of 10 eligible to vote only went to the polls, because of the ressesion.

Flags and the Supreme court
//- Bush was angered quickly by the supreme court after an inncident were a man burned a Americans Flag and the supreme court said that they are going to make it legal because is was a form of protest. - people felt differently about it and was very upset, saying that you were defacing the flag and the country. - Flag burning was just one of the many problems that the supreme court faced in that time period. - When Bush came into office he was left with a more connservitive supreme court, thats why it was so messed up.//

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The End of the //Cold// WAR
//- Since the end of the WW2, the soviets and communism has dominated all of eastern europe. - No single even during the cold war was as more important than when the BERLIN wall came down - Americans thrilled to pictures of Germans breaking the wall down with sledgehammers. - After the wall came down Germany met with NATO, and agreed on a timetable saying that it would stay its own country, ever since then Germany has been its own country. - Most of the European countries resign of communism and democracy had kicked in for them, one major one was Czechoslovakia. //