The Essential Paul Simon: Timeless Lessons for Today's Politics

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335 Index Abdullah, King, 170 abortion issue, 35–36, 257 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, xxviii actuarial deficiency, 222 Adams, John Quincy, 305 Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture, 242 advice and consent, 36–37, 39, 40, 323 affirmative action, 91–92 Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, 61 Afghanistan, 174–76 Africa, 176–77, 191–92; South Africa, 33, 187–88, 268–69 Agency for International Development (AID), 110 Agnew, Spiro, 54 airline industry, 26–27, 116 Albert, Carl, 17 amendments to the Constitution, proposed, 30, 282; defense budget amendment, 82–83; Equal Rights Amendment, 87; flag burning amendment, 87; prayer in schools, 249–51. See also Balanced Budget Amendment; First Amendment American Academy of Pediatrics, 124 American Bar Association, 39 American Civil Liberties Union, 123 American Legion, 310 American Petroleum Institute, 114 American Political Science Association, 16 Americorps, 138 Amnesty International report, 269–70 Amtrak, 115, 116 Anderson, John, 32, 34–35, 233 Angola, 175, 176–77, 300 Annan, Kofi, 195 Apalachin “Summit Conference,” 12 Arab refugees, 148 Arafat, Yasser, 157–58, 162, 170, 188 Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 24 arts, influence of, 125–26 Asian-Americans, 96 Aspin, Les, 206 Assad, Hafez al-, 154 Association of American Publishers, 123–25 Athens, 260 Atomic Energy committee, 5 Atwater, Lee, 291–92 AuCoin, Les, 33 automobile safety, 27–28, 296 336 Index Baker, James, 178 Balanced Budget Amendment, xxv, 20, 197, 199–201, 209, 218 Balik, Alfred, 2, 8–16 Barak, Ehud, 170 Barkley, Alben, 274 Bayh, Evan, 138 Beecher, Edward, 304 Begin, Menachem, 150, 152, 156 Ben-Gurion, David, 158 Ben Meir, Meir, 165 Benton, Thomas Hart, 211 Bentsen, Lloyd, 115 Berry, Thomas J., 15 Bidwell, Arthur J., 10 bike trails, 109 Bill of Rights, 19, 23–24, 89 Bingham, Eula, 26 bin Laden, Osama, 172–73, 178 bipartisanship, 241, 302; George W. Bush and, 277–79; Goldwater and, 276–77; socializing across party lines, 278–79; state and local legislature, 271–72. See also partisanship Bishop, Cecil W. “Runt,” 283 Black, Hugo, 23–24, 40, 88 Blagojevich, Rod, 102, 213, 214 Bond, Shadrach, 304 bonds: budget deficit and, 201, 208; Social Security and, 228; state, 198, 208, 210–11, 216–17 Booth, Heather, 265 Boren, David, 119–20 Bork, Robert, 323 Bosnia, 255 Botha, P. W., 268 Boudin, Chesa, 142 Bowen, Illinois, 276–77 Bowling Alone (Putnam), 311–12, 330–31 Boyte, Harry C., 265 Brady, Jim, 103 Brady, Sarah, 103, 104 Braverman, Avishay, 166 Bread for the World, 318 Breaking the News (Fallows), 294 Brewster, Daniel, 245 British elections, 49, 57 Brown, John, 305 Bryan, William Jennings, 184 Buchanan, John, 110, 248 Budget Act, 1993, 324, 326 budget deficit, Illinois, 197, 213–14; interest, 208; tax increases, 214, 215–16 budget deficit, national, xxiv–xxv, 20, 180–81, 196–200, 307; Balanced Budget Amendment, xxv, 20, 197, 199, 200–201, 209, 218; bonds, 201, 208; borrowing, 203, 205, 212–13; employment and, 229–30; inflation, 48, 201, 204–5, 207, 220, 226, 289; interest on national debt, 198, 200– 201, 202, 208–9, 216; paid off, 1835, 211–12; pay as you go principle, 198, 208–11, 216, 266, 326; recommendations , 202–3; unemployment and, 201, 204. See also tax cuts budgets, state, 56 budget surplus, 198–99, 219–21 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 105 Burger, Warren, 149 Burke, Edmund, xxi, 285, 324 Burr, Aaron, 40 Burris, Roland W., 211 Bush, George H. W., xxii, 172–73, 219, 292, 322; education amendment and, 82; transportation issues, 116 Bush, George W., 39, 277–78, 286; defense spending, 194; as governor , 190; Iraq and, 179; on polls, 190, 297 business and professional groups, 128 busing, 55–56 Index 337 Butler, Bob, 284 Butz, Earl, 41 Cairo, Illinois, conflict, xxvi California, 169, 170, 212–13 campaign finance, xxiv, 47–48, 244; congressional elections, 48–49; decision making process, effect on, 49–50; public financing, 56–57; soft money, 50–51 campaigns: length of, 57–58; media role, 51–59; modern, 286; negative , 21–22, 47–48, 59, 275–76, 279; presidential, 57–58 Canadian health system, 65, 70–71, 73–74 Capone syndicate, 10 Carle, David, 252, 266 Carter, Jimmy, xxii, 35, 89–90, 176, 193, 273–74; 1980 elections, 319–20; Panama Canal and, 185; talks with Begin, 150 Casey, William, 120 Castro, Fidel, 81, 181, 188, 189 censorship, 122, 123–24, 125; textbooks , 245–46 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 72 Central America...