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welcome to our h w bush and bill clinton
lecture today we'll be looking at h.w
bush's main policies
what steps he took before and after the
first gulf war
and what was the third way and some of
the third way
policies of bill clinton so just a note
of course there have been two
president bush's in recent history h.w
bush is the father
of w bush so anytime you see the h in
there that means we're talking about the elder
elder
uh who was president from 1988 to 1992
if you just see
george w bush that was the president
later from 2000 to 2008
so just be sure and keep those two
separate in your brains
so george h.w bush became president in
1988 after serving as reagan's vice
president for two terms
and he nominated john tower a republican
senator from texas to be his secretary
of defense
now tower staunchly opposed the civil
rights act in the voting rights act so
democrats didn't like him
but he had also alienated many
conservatives because he supported ford
over reagan in 1976 so the more moderate
candidate over the more conservative candidate
candidate
he also supported legalized abortion and
he opposed reagan's strategic defense
initiative that
star wars program he later led the tower
commission which was in charge of
investigating the iran-contra scandal
and was highly critical of the illegal
actions of the reagan administration
so neither party likes him but on top of
all of this
tower was also a twice divorced
womanizer and heavy drinker with a
bad reputation especially for getting
blackout drunk
this does not seem like someone we
should have in charge of the department
of defense
citing concerns of conflicts of interest
and about his personal life both
republicans and democrats demanded that
bush withdraw the nomination and you see this
this
tower fiasco playing out on the front of
time magazine there
when bush refused to withdraw the
nomination congress defeated it
the first cabinet defeat since the 1950s
and the first
ever for a newly elected president so
remember the president gets to appoint
these officials to
to head all of the executive departments
and to be his cabinet
but the senate gets to confirm these
people if they can't pass the net
confirmation they don't get to have the
permanent job
bush instead chose wyoming congressman
dick cheney to be his secretary of
defense and cheney passed the
confirmation process
unanimously now bush had to contend with
democrats controlling both houses of
congress and so some of the acts that he passes
passes
seem a little bit more moderate even liberal
liberal
canada protested that american pollution
was contributing to their acid rain
problem as the jet stream pushed the
pollution north and was killing fish a
big part of the canadian economy
as a result bush signed the clean air
act in 1990 which enacted tougher
standards on automobiles power plants
and cities to cut pollution
but the act bush that he was most proud
of passing during his tenure
was the americans with disabilities act
or the
ada which just recently had an anniversary
anniversary
the ada afforded similar protections as
the 1964
civil rights act outlawing
discrimination against people with
mental or physical disabilities
it also required covered employers to provide
provide
reasonable accommodations to employees
with disabilities
and it imposed accessibility
requirements on public accommodations
though recently there has been a push to
withdraw some of its provisions
and to weaken the act now those public accommodations
accommodations
and making them accessible doesn't
necessarily mean that all buildings have
to be
say wheelchair accessible or accessible
to someone on crutches
but if that building is updated if it's renovated
renovated
then it has to be brought up to those
new standards
critics argue that this thing made
doorknobs illegal and in a sense it did because
because
you need to have a door that can be
opened by someone who doesn't have a thumb
thumb
and doorknobs can't be opened unless you
have a thumb at least not easily
so they don't meet the accessibility requirements
requirements
which the law began to put into place
thurgood marshall the first black
supreme court justice was elderly and
decided to retire
and to replace him george h.w bush
nominated clarence thomas
thomas had only been a federal judge for
about 16 months he was the most
junior federal judge in the country and
the confirmation committee of eight
democrats and six republicans held the
confirmation hearings
on thomas's nomination they asked thomas
what was the most important ruling of
the last 20 years
he said he couldn't remember now thomas
had been the chairman of the equal
employment opportunity commission the eeoc
eeoc
and had worked with a woman named anita
hill hill was one of the employees
called before the senate committee
and after her testimony for the first
time the term sexual harassment was used
regularly by the media
four female witnesses to hill's
accusations against thomas waited in the
wings to support her credibility
but the senate committee led by then
senator joe biden declined to call them
biden also allowed thomas to testify
first and last with hill testifying in between
between
thomas said that nothing had happened
between him and hill
and as you'll see he basically accused
the senate committee of being racist if
they believed a black woman's testimony
against a black man accused of sexual harassment
harassment
eventually 10 democrats in the senate
voted for thomas's
confirmation and he passed 52-48 he is still
still
on the supreme court and women's
activists shortly after this took to
wearing buttons saying
i believe anita hill
so proceed to the next two clips to hear
testimony from
anita hill and from clarence thomas
especially since this is such a
controversial issue i want you to hear
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