RAH Day 40 Agenda Goal

• RAH Day 40 Agenda Goal – understand Clinton’s administration attempted to do domestically and internationally, the results of these actions and why there was so much political opposition to Clinton. To understand the economic changes that occurred in the 90 s. 1. Questions from homework 2. Clinton Foreign Policy – partners identify foreign issues, identify Clinton’s actions and the results of those actions 3. Discuss Clinton impeachment – 1. should he have been impeached? 2. Should he have been removed? 3. Explain your position 4. Complete p 2 re: changes in global economy 5. Complete p 3 re: changes in technology

Clinton Foreign Policy Event 1. End of Cold War 2. Conflict b/t Arabs and Israelis 3. Somalia warlords 4. Haiti 5. NAFTA 6. Russia 7. Yugoslavia 8. Iraq How did Clinton address the issue? Results of Clinton Policies?

Clinton’s Foreign Policies 1993 -2001 Event How did Clinton address Results of Clinton Policies? the issue? End of Cold War – USSR is gone, E. Eur wants capitalism and Democracy Save money on defense, worked with Yeltsin, but no Grand Strategy Russia began to prosper by 2000, Russia brought west into partnership w. NATO, defense $ down Conflict b/t Arabs and Israelis Clinton worked on Oslo peace process – Arafat and Rabin shake hands leading to cooperation Somalia warlords Clinton continued Bush plan for humanitarian aid and expanded into fighting warlords Blackhawk down. Hurt US/UN and White House/congress relations, Clinton looks weak Haiti – Aristide elected then overthrown US mobilized forces and Aristide was put back into called on the UN to act power. to protect Aristide

Clinton’s Foreign Policies 1993 -2001 Event How did Clinton address the issue? Results of Clinton Policies? NAFTA – North American Tough ratification fight Free Trade Agreement b/t in Senate – Clinton US, Mexico, Canada pushed hard Treaty was narrowly ratified – all three countries saw significant economic growth Russia – economic, military and nuclear problems $4. 5 b, in econ aid, advisers sent, $ for disarmament, START II implemented Less nukes, remaining nukes detargeted, Russian economy imporves. No nukes in Ukraine or Kazahkstan Yugoslavia – balkanized into Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and civil war b/t Croats and Serbs in Bosnia w/ Muslims Bosnians in the middle 92 – civil war begins 94 – NATO air strikes 95 – Clinton-led Dayton peace accords ends war 96 -98 Kosovo civil war 98 – Serb ethnic cleansing of Muslims 99 NATO air strikes Bosnia becomes separate country with powersharing and stable environment. Kosovo stays part of Yugoslavia (greater Serbia) but civil war ends and bad guys go on trial

Clinton’s Foreign Policies 1993 -2001 Event How did Clinton address the issue? Results of Clinton Policies? Iraq – ’ 91 - end of first Persian Gulf War – ’ 94 – Iraq makes moves against Kuwait – US sends 54 k troops to Kuwait in show of support and defense Iraq backs off - Iraqi planes are prohibited from flying over southern and northern Iraq ’ 96 – US airstrikes against Iraqi air defenses and air forces sites for violating no-fly zones and targeting US air craft patrols Iraqi anti-aircraft batteries continue to intermittently light up US planes. Iraqi air forces violate no-fly zones and are shot down Iraq required to open to weapons inspections -’ 92 – UN weapons inspectors go into Iraq ’ 92 -98 inspectors are messed with, then finally kicked out ’ 98 US responds with air and missile strikes 2000 – inspectors allowed back in to make sure weapons programs were not restarted

Clinton’s Impeachment • May 6, 1994 Paula Corbin Jones, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas sued Bill Clinton, alleging violations of her federal civil rights in 1991 by Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and she was an Arkansas state employee. According to the allegations, Governor Clinton invited Ms. Jones to his hotel room where he made a crude sexual advance that she rejected. • Four 3 years Clinton attempted to delay the civil lawsuit, but the US Supreme Court ruled in May 1997 that the lawsuit could go forward, so pre-trial discovery commenced in which various potential witnesses were subpoenaed for information related to the Jones incident and, over objections of the President's attorneys, Mr. Clinton's alleged sexual approaches to other women. • On April 1, 1998, Judge Susan Webber Wright granted summary judgment in favor of President Clinton, dismissing the Jones suit in its entirety, finding that Ms. Jones had not offered any evidence to support a viable claim of sexual harassment or intentional infliction of emotion distress. BUT……. .

Clinton’s Impeachment • Monica Lewinsky worked in the White House in 1995 as an intern when she began in fall of 1995 to have a months-long sexual relationship with President Clinton. • Lewinsky was moved out of the White House to a Pentagon position where she met Linda Tripp. • Ms. Lewinsky's name had been provided to the attorneys for Ms. Jones by Linda Tripp, a former White House employee who had become a confidante of Ms. Lewinsky in 1996 and 1997 and had secretly tape recorded various conversations she had with Lewinsky relating to her contacts with the President. • In late 1997, the Jones lawyers then subpoenaed Lewinsky to try and show that Clinton had a habit of preying upon women in his employ • On January 12, 1998, Ms. Tripp also provided the tapes of her conversations with Ms. Lewinsky to Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, who had been appointed to investigate charges against the President and Mrs. Clinton relating to the Whitewater real estate venture in Arkansas

Clinton’s Impeachment • In Jan 1998, Monica Lewinsky lied in her answers to the Jones lawyers, saying that she did not have a sexual relationship with Clinton. • Two days later Bill Clinton said the same thing to the Jones lawyers in his deposition. • Ken Starr finds out about the lies in the depositions and begins to invesitigate. • On January 26, 1998, Bill Clinton goes on TV to say, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky. • Ken Starr empanels a grand jury to investigate whether Clinton and Lewinsky lied under oath and did anything to obstruct Paula Jones’ attempt to get justice through the courts. • Bill Clinton admits in the grand jury that he had some kind of relations with Lewinsky, but did not lie to the Jones lawyers. • September 1998, Starr submits a report to Congress alelging that he has "substantial and credible information that President William Jefferson Clinton committed acts that may constitute grounds for an impeachment"

Clinton’s Impeachment • October 8, 1998, the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Henry Hyde begins to consider and investigate the Starr Report. • On December 11 and 12, the Committee approved four articles of impeachment for presentation to the full House • After debate, the House approved two of the Articles alleging that the President had provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury regarding the Paula Jones case and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and that he had obstructed justice through an effort to delay, impede, cover up and conceal the existence of evidence related to the Jones case. • The Impeachment Trial in the Senate commenced on January 7, 1999, with Chief Justice Rehnquist presiding.

• The Senate voted on the Articles of Impeachment on February 12, with a two -thirds majority, or 67 Senators, required to convict. • On Article I, that charged that the President ". . . willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury" and made ". . . corrupt efforts to influence the testimony of witnesses and to impede the discovery of evidence" in the Paula Jones lawsuit, the President was found not guilty with 45 Senators voting for the President's removal from office and 55 against. Ten Republicans split with their colleagues to vote for acquittal; all 45 Democrats voted to acquit. • On Article II, charging that the President ". . . has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice". . . , the vote was 50 -50, with all Democrats and five Republicans voting to acquit.

The New Global Economy –packet p 2 1. The good news – 2. The bad news – Unemployment lowest since Still high public and private debt WWII Still 32 million in poverty High growth – GDP doubled in 8 Increasing wealth and income years disparity New Technologies Declining real income Low inflation Job loss and insecuirty New jobs from manufacturing to services because US was 3. Changes Budget surpluses –to cost of manufacturing. Results for workers was an uncompetitive due ‘ 98 -’ 00 increase in temporary, consulting and lower pay and lower benefit jobs 4. Changes in manufacturing like just-in-time production, robotics, with less job and retirement security technology and productivity increases and corporate cost-cutting to maximize profits resulted in workers increasingly in temporary, consulting and lower pay and lower benefit jobs with less job and 5. Changessecurity retirement to service-sector products, global trade and high US labor costs resulted in workers increasingly in temporary, consulting and lower pay and lower benefit jobs with less job and retirement security 5. Changes to robotics, computers, ‘net, advanced training and education resulted in workers in these fields getting higher pay, better benefits, stock-options

P 3 - Technology and Modern Life 1. Communications – internet, e-mail, information “superhighway”, WWW, cell phones, fax, v-chip 1. Deregulation like the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed media companies to compete with each other across media – TV, could own radio, could do phones, long-distance, cable – resulting now in the competition by Verizon and Comcast for your TV, phone and internet dollars – the FCC auctioned off the airwaves to companies (i. e. cell phones) 2. Healthcare – MRI, CT scan PET scan, AIDS drug cocktails, FDA improved drug approval speed, much better prostheses, human genome project and genetic testing. 1. Also the new Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) type of insurance 3. Genetic engineering – GM or GE foods, conflict over these products. Therapies and stem cell issues 4. Entertainment – DVDs, CD-ROM, CD, satellite TV, IMAX 5. Education – more computers, networking and data tracking, teleconferencing and online schools, digital libraries

P 3 - Technology and Modern Life 6. Transportation – better safety belts, airbags and global positioning systems (GPS), capable of better fuel efficiency, lots of SUVs 7. Space exploration – more shuttles, hubble space telescope, beginning of international space station and cooperation with Russians, Europe and the US and Japan 8. Environment – recycling picks up, lots of waste still produced, zero and low emission vehicles, cancers from acid rain, air quality still an issue, beginning of public awareness of global warming and climate change, still an issue of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants.