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The Impeachment Process

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Unit 12, Lesson 7 Two More Presidents

President Bush greeting Gulf War soldiers. President Clinton and King Hussein of Jordan look on as Yasser Arafat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands.

Which U.S. President was a World War II Navy pilot and a genuine war hero?

Which President of the United States played the saxophone and at one time had considered a career as a musician? This same president was a Rhodes Scholar, a Yale graduate, and a former governor.

Today you’ll learn more about our 41st and 42nd U.S. Presidents.

Where we’re headed…

Identify U.S. Presidents who served between the years 1974 and 2012 (Lessons 4-7).

Identify major events that occurred during President Bush’s administration.

Recognize what is meant by “the end of the Cold War.”

Identify the causes and results of the Gulf War.

Describe with examples Bill Clinton’s achievements and failures.

Explain the purpose and process of impeachment.

Objectives for this lesson:

George H.W. Bush Mini Biography

http://www.biography.com/people/george-hw-bush-38066#awesm=~oChsgNjDoPjhrH

The title of Chapter 60 is “The End of the Cold War.” What do you think is the meaning of this phrase?

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In _______________, the Soviet Union broke into pieces. Yes, the Soviet Union, the _______________ the land we called Russia—a nation composed of many states—fell apart. The Soviet Union’s _______________ power didn’t collapse. Communism did. As a _______________ system, communism had failed. It had begun with high hopes as a visionary experiment. The experiment hadn’t worked. It had turned Russia into an unfree, _______________, clumsy nation. Karl _______________ economic ideas hadn’t worked, either. Government ownership of land and products didn’t bring efficiency and productivity. Finally, the burden of ever-growing _______________ needs helped wreck Russia’s economy. (Trying to keep up with the Reagan-era military might have helped do it.)

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When the Russian people had had enough, they just threw communism out. It was stunning; it was peaceful; it meant that everything had changed in the world’s politics. The _______________ War was over. It was hard to believe. Now that Russia was a _______________ nation, there was no giant to battle. At first we didn’t seem to know what to do.

In 1989, the Soviet Union fell apart—a momentous event symbolized by the removal of this statue of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of Russian communism.

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But it was becoming clear to most people that we are all passengers on the same global spaceship. The European nations had joined together to form a Common Market—called the _______________ Union. They began acting—economically—as if they were one giant nation. Japan was a major economic power. _______________ like South Korea, China, India, and Indonesia were making big moves in business. The world’s economies were all becoming linked, as nations that had once been communist began to change to _______________ market economies—economies with little government control.

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People all over the world wanted _______________. When students in China rebelled against their corrupt government, they paraded around with a statue of the “Goddess of Democracy” modeled after our Statue of _______________. The Chinese government sent troops, who opened fire on civilians in Beijing’s _______________ Square. Many students were killed.

When thousands of Chinese students demonstrated and raised a statue of the “Goddess of Democracy” in Tiananmen Square in the capital of China, the government broke up the demonstrations and killed many of the rebels.

Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks the morning after the Chinese military forcibly removed protesters from in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man achieved widespread international recognition due to the videotape and photographs taken of the incident.

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What was happening?

The fall of _______________ communism was giving oppressed peoples everywhere an _______________ of possibilities. It gave us a new _______________ of our freedoms. Ronald Reagan championed those freedoms worldwide, but it was the _______________ president, Republican George Bush, who was able to take us in a _______________ direction.

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Bush was a practical fellow with a low-key manner and an ability to tackle details. The son of a Connecticut senator, Bush was the youngest pilot in the navy during World War _______________ and a genuine war hero. After the war, he moved west to Texas and became an oilman. But it was government that fascinated him, and he served in a series of important jobs—right up to the vice presidency under Ronald Reagan. In _______________, he became president himself.

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He promised “_______________.” But all those years of war preparation had been hard on us as well as on Russia. Bush became president at a time when _______________ were in decay, _______________ were behind those of many other nations, _______________ was epidemic, and the huge national _______________ was making many Americans fearful of the future. So President Bush worked out an agreement with _______________ —which was controlled by a Democratic Party majority—to raise _______________. It may have helped restrain the debt and thus take a step toward _______________ that was coming; it didn’t help George Bush with the American people. But his foreign policy did win approval.

As president, George Bush promised not to raise taxes. Then why did he make an agreement with Congress to raise taxes?

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When Saddam _______________, dictator of Iraq, sent troops into neighboring _______________ and took over that nation, Bush led a forceful response. The United States, with the United Nations, stopped Hussein’s aggression in the powerful, short ________________ Gulf War.

A U.S. F-117A, known as the stealth fighter.

U.S. Marines advance during the ground war in Operation Desert Storm.

Saddam Hussain

President Bush led a _______________ response (from August 1990 to February 1991) that would be known as the First Gulf War, or Operation _______________ Storm. Working with the United Nations, the president put together a coalition of nations that quickly drove _______________ out of Kuwait. Air strikes on well-defined targets were coordinated with an effective ground force that raced through Kuwait and into southern Iraq.

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President Bush and his military advisers achieved their goal: an _______________ Kuwait. But they resisted pressure to capture _______________ and remove Saddam Hussein for two reasons. _______________, they thought, was an even more dangerous threat than Iraq and a strong Iraq was necessary to contain Iran. And the second reason for holding back? They understood that occupation of a defeated _______________ would be costly and dangerous. Some criticized President Bush for that decision, because it left Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq.

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What were the causes and results of the Gulf War? (Pages 272-273)

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The next time President Bush called out American forces, it was to help starving people in _______________. That nation, which elbows out into the Indian Ocean from the east coast of Africa, was in a state of crisis. Crops failed. Armed thugs were terrorizing and killing. There was no effective _______________. Our marines brought food and some help. We worked with the _______________. Our aim was to make _______________ a whole-world venture.

Why did Bush send American forces into Somalia? (Page 273)

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But good intentions don’t always matter. In the former Eastern European nation of Yugoslavia—which had been split into several different nations, some of them claiming the same land—Serbs and Croats and Muslims began killing each other, partly because their _______________ were different. That horrendous war, with “ethnic cleansing” or mass killings, finally ended with an agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995. In the face of such calamities, we started asking ourselves some hard questions: does the United States have a _______________ to try to solve the problems of other nations? Is it done best with armies or with negotiators? Or should we concentrate on creating a just society at home and hope that the rest of the world will take notice?

A Serbian woman grieves in a makeshift cemetery during the ethnic and religious civil war in the former Yugoslavia.

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William Jefferson Clinton Mini Biography

http://www.biography.com/people/bill-clinton-9251236#awesm=~oCi08gK1z1UQjL

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That a small-town boy from one of the poorest of states could make it to the nation’s top job is what America is all about. William Jefferson Clinton, from Hope, Arkansas, became our _______________ president and, at the age of 46, the third-youngest in American history. He was the first _______________ president in 12 years. Few men have arrived at the presidency with a background to match Clinton’s. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, he had been a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England, received a law degree from Yale University, and for 12 years served as _______________ of Arkansas. Everywhere he left an impression of vigor, compassion, and astonishing ability—along with troublesome stories of about-faces under pressure from wealthy interests and other less-than-principled actions.

The woman who would become Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham, also awed people with her intellect and ability. As a lawyer, she held a series of jobs where her intensity and intelligence made her stand out. She served on the legal staff that investigated _______________. She devoted much of her career to issues of health and child care. With Bill Clinton, she became half of an incredible political partnership.

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Bill Clinton, seen here with his wife, Hillary, proved to be a brilliant campaigner who could connect with people of all backgrounds.

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What kind of president was Bill Clinton? For a Democratic president, he pursued many goals most often associated with _______________. He cut _______________, put more _______________ on the streets, built _______________, stepped up the war on _______________, expanded the _______________ penalty, and, after passage of a deficit reduction bill (without any Republican votes), _______________ the budget. For the first time in _______________ years, instead of a budget deficit, the country had a _______________! All that helped bring about a stock-market surge, low unemployment, minimal inflation, and general _______________. But Clinton was unable to get _______________ insurance for all Americans, or change the way we paid for political campaigns, or do much for _______________ schools. The gap between the rich and the middle class grew _______________.

President Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat together for a historic handshake after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord at the White House in 1993. Not since the Camp David accords of 1978 had people felt such hope for peace in the Middle East

President Clinton arrives in Bosnia to spend Christmas with

American troops stationed there.

In _______________ affairs, the Clinton administration brought warring parties from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia to Dayton, Ohio, where they sat down and agreed to stop killing each other. Former president Jimmy Carter was sent to Haiti and helped that impoverished island get its first fairly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, into office. In the Middle East, Clinton helped negotiate agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. In Ireland, where Protestants and Catholics had been fighting for centuries, the administration again acted as a mediator in the effort to achieve a historic peace agreement. Trade treaties—lowering tariffs and bolstering international free trade—were negotiated by the administration and ratified by Congress. And Clinton made a historic trip to China, where he charmed the Chinese with his willingness to answer hard questions.

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Despite his gifts of unusual intelligence and charm, Bill Clinton threw away the chance to be a _______________ president. Clinton’s presidency, begun with so much promise, turned into a personal and national disaster. Even before he took office, Bill Clinton was accused of all kinds of wrongdoing. A special prosecutor was appointed to investigate questions about a real-estate investment (called _______________) in Arkansas that Clinton had made while he was that state’s governor. The special prosecutor—who ignored long-cherished legal traditions (such as the privacy of lawyer-and-client confidences)—found no evidence of _______________ connected with Whitewater, but he did find Clinton’s flaw.

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Bill Clinton was president when television and films were bombarding us with images that had once been seen only in private. In the past we hadn’t known much about the _______________ lives of politicians, but by Clinton’s time the media were spreading opinions and information (and misinformation) everywhere—and quickly. In the case of President William Jefferson Clinton, we learned details of his private life that no one wanted to know. The special prosecutor and the press went far beyond the bounds of legal necessity in describing the president’s relations with a woman who worked in the White House. When faced with disturbing accusations about his personal life, Clinton was not _______________. He _______________ to the American public and he lied to members of his administration. He wounded himself, his family, and the nation.

A humbled President Clinton vows to complete his term after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him. He was later acquitted of the impeachment charges by the Senate.

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In December 1998, Bill Clinton was _______________ in the House of Representatives. Why? He was charged with sexual misconduct. However, in the Senate trial that followed, the president was found not to have committed “_______________.” His private behavior was not deemed a constitutional offense (no matter how inappropriate). It was an example of constitutional _______________ at work. A humbled President

Clinton vows to complete his term after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him. He was later acquitted of the impeachment charges by the Senate.

Give some examples of goals that President Bill Clinton achieved during his presidency, goals that he was unable to achieve, and failures of his presidency. (Page 274)

Article II, Section 4

Step 1 is Grounds for Impeachment Phase. Step 2 is Phase 1. Steps 3 & 4 are part of Phase 2. Step 5 is the Penalty Phase.

Explain the purpose and process of impeachment. Bill Clinton was impeached, but he was not removed from the office of president. Why? (Page 276)

The impeachment process:

B. Research

Research online Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Clinton. Collect information from The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier’s online encyclopedia, and from other websites (A good source would be the presidential libraries).

Complete Time Line sheet for each president. Be sure to include the following information:

• Personal Characteristics/Background

• Major Contributions

• Major Failures

• Domestic Policies/Activities

• Foreign Policies/Activities

When finished, compare your answers with the ones in the Lesson Answer Key.

Review pages 270-276 and answer questions 1-6 in your Student Guide pages.

B. Research Complete the Presidential Time

Line sheets for Presidents Bush and Clinton by doing research online.

C. Use What You Know

Complete the Presidential Clues sheet to see how much you remember about the presidents who served between 1974 and 2000. Check your answers with those in the Lesson Answer Key.

Complete Unit 12, Lesson 7 Assessment.

Tomorrow you will use maps to locate

areas of major U.S. military involvement, and that have experienced major political changes since 1975.

Homework