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Managing the Bush White House

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The Bush Presidency

Part of the book series: Southampton Studies in International Policy ((SSIP))

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Abstract

When George Bush was elected president in November 1988, the United States confronted many complex and difficult tasks. Among the challenges on the national agenda were:1

  • to revise the educational system;

  • successfully to integrate diverse ethnic and religious minorities and immigrants, tapping the creative energies of each;

  • to integrate the US economy into the global economy;

  • to address the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor;

  • to develop a viable health delivery system at a reasonable cost in terms of share of GNP;

  • to restore the technological edge of the United States in manufacturing;

  • to return the US to the cutting edge in new technologies;

  • to increase exports and address the balance of trade;

  • to contain if not lower the federal deficit and national debt;

  • to develop long-term capital and human investments to assure future economic growth;

  • to facilitate and structure a budding New World Order in international affairs.

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  1. Marcia Lynn Whicker
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Southampton, UK

    Dilys M. Hill (Reader in Politics) (Reader in Politics)

  2. The Matthew Ridgway Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Phil Williams (Professor in International Security and Director) (Professor in International Security and Director)

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Whicker, M.L. (1994). Managing the Bush White House. In: Hill, D.M., Williams, P. (eds) The Bush Presidency. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23402-8_2

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