Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (85 page)

U.N. inspectors,
236

U.N. peacekeepers,
339

U.N. Security Council,
232
,
400
,
400
n
32

Underclass,
39
,
297
,
308

Unemployment,
7
,
38
n
46,
63
,
97
,
163
,
308
,
357

Union.
See
labor unions United Airlines,
361

United States Olympic Committee.
See
USOC

United States v. Lopez,
366

United Steelworkers of America v. Weber,
27
n
37

Universities: affirmative action and,
28
–30,
29
n
41,
53

   and inequalities in 1990s,
263
,
278

University of California Regents v. Bakke,
31
n
44

An Unmarried Woman,
53

Updike, John,
288
,
363
“Urban crisis,”
37
–44,
41
n
71

Urban deterioration,
15

Urban League,
243

   U.S.: nuclear weapons and,
4
,
102
,
108
,
116
,
118
,
121
,
123
,
196
,
205
,
229
,
336

   Soviet Union détente with,
4
,
102
–4

   in world economy,
61
–62,
360

U.S. Congress,
52
,
81
,
85
–88

U.S. Constitution: 2000 election and,
398
,
415
–18,
415
n
60

   crisis of,
2

   survival of,
9

U.S. Department of Defense,
60
,
208
,
382

U.S. Department of Energy,
175

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
329

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,
22

U.S. Department of Treasury,
335

U.S. House of Representatives,
61
,
85

U.S. Senate,
82
,
85

U.S. Supreme Court: 2000 election and,
414
–19,
416
nn
63–64,
417
n
65

   abortion and,
xii
,
3

   affirmative action and,
xii
,
27
,
35
,
113

   Civil Rights Movement and,
15

   Clinton and,
388

   conservative balance of,
2

   decisions of,
67
,
83
,
118
,
182
,
182
n
92,
241
,
313
,
313
n
57,
366

   nominees of,
242
–44,
330
,
330
n
35,
367

   Reagan and,
174
,
174
n
64

   right of privacy advanced by,
47

   school prayers and,
142

USOC (United States Olympic Committee),
278

U.S.S.
Cole,
380
,
384

USSR.
See
Soviet Union

Vance, Cyrus,
121
–23,
125
–26,
335

“Vast right-wing conspiracy,”
324
,
390

Veterans Administration,
38

Viacom,
285

Victoria Secret stores,
178

Vietnam: American humiliation in,
xi
,
3

   Clinton and,
368

   cost of,
65

   draft evaders and,
121

   era of,
xiii
,
9
,
10
,
42
,
71
,
74

   Ford and,
98
–102

   foreign policy after,
4
,
200

   Nixon and,
2
,
77

   war lost in,
7

Vietnam Memorial,
183

Viguerie, Richard,
132

Viking I and II,
60

Violence,
40
–44,
41
n
74,
304

Volcker, Paul,
148
,
162

Voting,
70
,
149
,
149
n
105,
243
,
253
,
258
,
265
,
324
,
396
,
412
,
413
,
413
nn
56–57,
416
,
418
–20

Voting Rights Act of 1965,
15
,
18

Voyager I and II,
60

Wall Street,
186

Wallace, George,
131

The Wall Street Journal,
132

Wal-Mart,
356

Walsh, Lawrence,
211
–13

Walt Disney Company,
285

Walters, Barbara,
399

War(s): Civil,
337

   Cold,
xi
,
xii
,
4
,
60
,
99
,
102
–4,
123
,
124
,
153
,
194
–96,
216
–17,
425

   “Culture,”
xii
,
3
,
12
,
260
,
264
–65,
265
n
31,
269
,
274

   Gulf,
xii
,
201
,
230
–38,
234
n
38,
235
n
39,
336

   Yom Kippur,
7
,
97
).
See also
Vietnam; World War II

War on Poverty,
xi
,
95

War Powers Act,
84
,
86
,
98

Ward’s Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio,
241
n
51

Warren Commission Report of 1964,
72
,
92
,
276

Warren, Earl,
136

Washington, Harold,
170

Washington Post,
181

Washington, Walter,
16

Water projects and dams,
112
–13

Watergate: burglary in,
1
,
72

   era after,
xii
,
2
,
8
,
9
,
10

   Republicans and,
79

   scandal of,
xi
,
71
,
106
,
212
,
423

“Watergate babies,”
84

Watt, James,
176
–77

Weapons.
See also
Nuclear

weapons: assault,
331
,
331
n
36

   chemical,
230

Weather Underground,
77

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services,
242
n
56

Weinberger, Caspar,
193
–94,
200
,
206
,
209
–10,
213
,
214