and Boston busing crisis, 61
death of, 306
and ERA, 69
and health care reform, 306
and NCLB, 248
Kerner Commission, 46–47, 328
Kerry, John, 262, 277, 289
Keynesian economics, 107–9, 190, 296
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 99
King, Billie Jean, 73–75
King, Coretta Scott, 124
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 45, 46, 48, 61, 129
King, Rodney, 196–98
Kinsolving, Lester, 176
Kirsch, Steve, 232
Kissinger, Henry, 14
Kit Carson National Forest (New Mexico), 53
Knight, Robert, 279
Koch brothers, 311
Kohut, Andrew, 278
Koop, C. Everett, 90, 177, 178
Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 125–26
Koresh, David, 207–8
Kotto, Yaphet, 32
Kraft, Joseph, 10
Kramer, Larry, 175, 177–78
Kristol, Bill, 226, 343
Krugman, Paul, 297
Kudlow, Larry, 357
Kurtz, Howard, 225
Kuwait, 185–87
Kyoto Protocol, 244
Laffer, Arthur, 108–9
Laffer Curve, 108–9
LaHaye, Beverly, 92
LaHaye, Tim, 94
LaHood, Ray, 295
Lamptey, Peter, 263
Landreth, Bill, 151
language education, 63
LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department), 196
LaPierre, Wayne, 325
Larry King Live, 201
Las Vegas mass shooting (2017), 355
Latin America, 56, 57
Latinos, 54, 286
Lauer, Matt, 352
Lau v. Nichols, 63
“lavender scare,” 80
“law and order,” 47
Lawrence v. Texas, 273
Lear, Norman, 32, 76, 173
Lebanon, 161–65
Lehman Brothers, 293
Leland, John, 159
Lessner, Richard, 273
Levitt, Arthur, 292
Lewinsky, Monica, 226–27
Lewis, Anthony, 9–10
Lewis, Jerry, 298
LGBTQ rights, See gay rights
Libby, Lewis “Scooter,” 258
“liberal establishment,” 12
liberals/liberalism
and Bork nomination, 173
and Clinton impeachment, 227
at end of Reagan administration, 178
as force in 1980s, 114–22
internet as platform for, 275–76
media resistance to George W. Bush’s agenda, 273–76
Obama’s economic stimulus package, 297
Obama’s farewell speech, 4
and television programming, 283–84
libertarianism, 280
Libya, See Benghazi attacks
Limbaugh, Rush, 214–17, 274
Loan Guarantee Board, 42
lobbyists, 18–19, 97–98
Long, Russell, 41
looting, 268
Los Angeles, California, 29, 196–98
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 196
Los Angeles Times, 20, 161–62, 196–97
Lumet, Sidney, 24
Luntz, Frank, 216, 217
Lynn, Barry, 155–56
McCabe, Andrew, 356
McCain, John
election of 2002, 261
election of 2008, 290–91, 294
Republican National Convention (2016), 339
TARP, 294
Trump and, 336–37
McCall, C. W., 29
McCarthy, Kevin, 311, 324
McConnell, Mitch
on Access Hollywood revelations, 346
and Affordable Care Act, 307
and debt ceiling battle, 313–14
general opposition to Obama, 298
and polarization, 310
McCord, James, 8
McCorvey, Norma, 78–79
McDonald, Larry, 125
McFarlane, Robert, 124
McGovern, George, 69, 91, 225
Macintosh computer, 148–49
McKesson, DeRay, 328
McKinnon, Mark, 261
McLemore, Greg, 237
MacNeil-Lehrer Report, 40
McVeigh, Timothy, 220
Madden, John, 148
Madonna, 153
Magaziner, Ira, 211
Maher, Bill, 260
Maines, Natalie, 266
Malcolm X, 52
Malkin, Michelle, 300
Manafort, Paul, 342–43, 356
Manchester, New Hampshire, 31
Mann, Tom, 302
March for Our Lives movement, 355
Marines, US, 198
Markey, Edward, 125
marriage; See also same-sex marriage
declining rate in 1970s, 77
DOMA and, 218–19
Married . . . With Children (TV program), 224
Marshall, Josh, 276
Marshall, Thurgood, 60, 193
Martin, Trayvon, 326, 329
Martinez, Bob, 158
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (TV program), 76
Massachusetts, 303, 314
Massey, Douglas, 51
mass media, 223, 227–31
mass shootings, 355
Matlock, Jack, 170
Matsushita Electrical Industrial Company, 189
Mattachine Society, 80
Matthews, Chris, 267–68
Maude (TV program), 76
mayors, 49, 77
Mazzoli, Romano, 132
MCA, 189
Mean Streets (movie), 31–32
media; See also specific media outlets
Clinton and, 340
coverage of Obama’s farewell speech, 4–5
fragmentation in 1960s–1970s, 3–4
sexual content and, 223, 227–31
social media as news source in 2016, 342
Trump and, 335–36
Medicaid, 90–91, 302, 306
Medicare, 212, 302
Meese, Ed, 155
Meese Commission, 155–56
Meetup.com, 276
Mellencamp, John Cougar, 154
Menendez, Robert, 245
Meredith Corp. v. FCC, 152
Merrill Lynch, 293
#MeToo movement, 352
Metronet, 23
Mexican Americans, 52–54
Mexico, 334, 353
Michaels, Lorne, 254
Michel, Robert, 111
Microsoft, 146
Middle East, 14, 99–101
midterm elections, See specific election years, e.g.: election of 2010
Midwest, 17
military tribunals, 257–58
militias, 220–21
Milk, Harvey, 85–86, 94
Milken, Michael, 134
Milliken v. Bradley, 59–60
Mills, Wilbur, 12
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 258
Mondale, Walter, 128–30
“Money for Nothing” (song), 143
money in politics, 18–19
Moonves, Les, 337
Moore, Mary Tyler, 76
Moore, Roy, 352
Moral Majority, 93–94, 117, 173
Morgan, Marabel, 71
“Morning in America,” 128
Morris, Dick, 217
Moscone, George, 85, 94
Mötley Crüe, 143
Motorola, 146
Moulitsas, Markos, 331
mouse, 147–48
MoveOn.org, 265
movies; See also specific movies
dystopian themes in 1970s, 31–32
white ethnic cultural roots in, 55
Ms. magazine, 69, 76–77
MSNBC
and George W. Bush administration, 284
early days of, 224
Iraq War, 265–68
Lewinsky scandal, 227
Tea Party and, 300
MTV (Music Television), 142–44, 153, 228, 229
Mueller, Robert, 356
multilingual education, 63
Murdoch, Rupert, 224
Murphy, Thomas, 42
Musberger, Brent, 75
music industry, 152–55
Muslim immigrants, 253
Muslim travel ban, 353
Mutually Assured Destruction, 126–27
Myers, Michael “Ozzie,” 101
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 48, 59
Nader, Ralph, 42, 136
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 202, 208–9, 350
Nannygate, 207
Napolitano, Andrew, 312
narrowcasting, 143–44
NASDAQ, 232, 238
Nashville (movie), 17
National Affairs Briefing (Dallas, 1980), 95
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 48, 59
National Association of Broadcasters, 153
National Audubon Society, 191
National Black Political Agenda, 50
National Black Political Convention (1972), 49–50
National Council for La Raza, 54
National Council on Aging, 115
National Election Pool (NEP) exit poll, 278
National Enquirer, 337
National Federation for Decency, 93
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 315
National Football League, 254
National Guard, 281
nationalism, 354–55
National Organization for Women (NOW), 68–69, 194, 196
National Origins Act (1924), 56
National Pro-Life Political Action Committee (NPLPAC), 91
National Review, 215–16
National Rifle Association (NRA), 325, 355
National Right to Life Committee, 90, 117
national security, 122–27
National Security Agency (NSA), 287–88, 322
NATO, 124–26, 255
Nauert, Heather, 357
NBC television network
The Apprentice, 332
election of 1980 coverage, 104
Iran-Contra investigation, 163
oligopoly of news in 1970s, 22
Will & Grace, 229–30
NCLB (No Child Left Behind Act) (2001), 248–49
negative campaigning, 180, 183–84, 200, 202, 225
Nelson, Ben, 306
NEP (National Election Pool) exit poll, 278
Netscape, 233
Network (movie), 24–25
Nevada, 291–92
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 31
New Deal
popularity of programs, 116
and postwar prosperity, 26
Reagan’s rejection of, 102, 120–21
Social Security and, 114
New Economy, 234
New England, 30–31
New Hampshire primaries, 181
“new journalism,” 21–22
New Orleans, Louisiana, 280–83
New Orleans Police Department, 281
New Orleans Superdome, 281–83
New Right, 88, 96–105
news media, See media
newspapers, 141–42
Newsweek magazine, 150, 226, 252
New Times, 21–22
Newton, Wayne, 121
New World Order, 186, 187
New York City
blackout (1977), 16–17
9/11 attacks, 249, 250, 252
Occupy movement, 308–9
as setting for dystopian movies in 1970s, 31–32
strikes, crime, and near-bankruptcy in mid-1970s, 15–17
Times Square renovation, 233–34
New York Daily News, 16
New Yorker, The, 11
New York Magazine, 34
New York Police Department (NYPD), 81, 233, 326
New York Times
Afghanistan coverage, 255
George H. W. Bush’s popularity, 188–89
Hillary Clinton’s emails, 346–47
Dixie Chicks’ antiwar stance, 266
dot-com crash, 238
election of 2008, 295
money in politics post-Buckley v. Valeo, 19
9/11 coverage, 249–51
Nixon’s resignation, 9–10
NYC sanitation strike, 15
tax revolt, 103
Trump campaign, 343
USA Today’s influence on, 142
New York Times Magazine, 276
Nicaragua, 124, 162–65
Nichols, Terry, 220
9 to 5 (movie), 195
9/11 attacks, 243, 249–54
congressional investigations into, 269
and Iraq War, 261
response to, See War on Terror
1960s, 3, 7
1970s, 3, 5, 7, 28–34
1990s, 203–22, 231–35
Nixon, Richard; See also Watergate
Roger Ailes and, 224–25
Robert Bork and, 173
and Burger court, 170–71
deregulation of airwaves, 136
détente, 14
election of 1976, 35
environmental regulation, 29
and ERA, 69
Ford’s pardoning of, 11–12
as “law and order” candidate, 47
and Milliken v. Bradley, 59–60
“politics of positive polarization,” 351
public approval parallels with Trump, 357
resignation, 7, 9–10
Supreme Court appointees, 18
Title IX, 72
Caspar Weinberger and, 123
White House tapes, 8–9
Nobel Peace Prize, 99
Nobel Prize for Economics, 108
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) (2001), 248–49
Noonan, Peggy, 182
Normandy, 131
Norma Rae (movie), 32
North, Oliver, 162–64
Northeastern US, 17, 28
Northern Alliance, 255
Northern US, 51
Novak, Michael, 55–56
Novak, Robert, 140
NOW (National Organization for Women), 68–69, 194, 196
Noyce, Robert, 147
NPLPAC (National Pro-Life Political Action Committee), 91
NRA (National Rifle Association), 325, 355
NSA (National Security Agency), 287–88, 322
NSDD-145, 150
nuclear disarmament, 167, 168
“nuclear family,” 65
nuclear freeze movement, 124
nuclear power, 39
nuclear war, 126
nuclear weapons, 122–25
Nunes, Devin, 356
Nunn, Sam, 206
NYPD (New York Police Department), 81, 233, 326
Obama, Barack
election of 2008, 290, 294–95
election of 2012, 314–17, 319
farewell address, 1–5
on ISIS, 323
keynote address at 2004 Democratic National Convention, 289–90
partisanship and legislative battles during first term, 295–302
partisanship during second term, 320–25
and Russian influence on 2016 election, 342
and Sandy Hook, 325
Trump and, 333–34
Obamacare, See Affordable Care Act
Obergefell v. Hodges, 338
Obey, David, 298
O’Brien, Conan, 262
obscenity
Meese Commission, 155–56
PMRC, 152–55, 157
in rap music, 156–59
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 120–21
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 117
O’Donnell, Kirk, 116
Office of Financial Research, 308
Ogilvy & Mather, 23
O’Hare Airport, Chicago, 257
Ohio, 277
–78
oil embargo (1973), 14, 28
oil embargo (1979), 39–40
oil spills, 29
Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 220–21
Olbermann, Keith, 284
O’Leary, Jean, 86
“Olliemania,” 164
O’Neill, Tip, 111, 115, 119, 213
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 28, 39
Operation Desert Storm, 185–88
Operation Enduring Freedom, 255; See also Afghanistan War (2001– )
Operation Hammer, 198
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 268; See also Iraq War (2003–2011)
Operation Primetime (OPT), 23
Operation PUSH, 50, 129
opinion polling, See public opinion polls
OPT (Operation Primetime), 23
O’Reilly, Bill, 225, 283
O’Reilly Report, The (TV program), 225
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 28, 39
organized labor, 130
Ornstein, Norm, 302
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), 120–21
Ossofsky, Jack, 115
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 337
Out of the Inner Circle (Landreth), 151
pack journalism, 19–25
PACs (political action committees), 19, 97–98
Page, Clarence, 159
Palin, Sarah, 291, 305, 312
Palm Beach County, 241
Palmer, Arnold, 33–34
Pan Am, 189
Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC), 152–55, 157
Paris, ISIS attacks in, 323
Parkland, Florida, school shooting, 355
Parsley, Rod, 277
Parsons, Ed, 137
partial-birth abortion ban, 272
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), See Affordable Care Act
Patrick, Dennis, 152
Patrick, Neal, 150
Patterson, James, 26–27
Paul, Rand, 331
Paul, Ron, 42
Paulson, Henry, 294
Peckinpah, Sam, 29
Pelosi, Nancy, 307
Peña, Federico, 54
Pence, Mike, 345
Pentagon, 82, 249
People for the American Way, 173
PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), 263–64
perestroika, 165
Perle, Richard, 123
Perot, Ross, 201–2, 204, 209
Perry, Rick, 332
Persian Gulf War (1991), 185–88
personal computers, 146–49, 230
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996), 219
Peters, John, 76
Peterson, Peter, 293
Petraeus, David, 287
Pets.com, 237–38
Philadelphia Daily News, 289
Phillips, Kevin, 96, 133, 183, 198
Piketty, Thomas, 308, 309
Pitney, John, 268–69
Pittman, Robert, 142, 143
Planned Parenthood, 329
Playboy magazine, 37, 156
PMRC (Parents’ Music Resource Center), 152–55, 157
Podesta, John, 346
Poindexter, John, 162
political action committees (PACs), 19, 97–98
Politically Incorrect (TV program), 260
political polarization, 2–3
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