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Crash Course 45 - The Clinton Years

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Period 9 - The 90s and Bill Clinton

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hi I'm John Green this is Crash Course u.s. history and today we have finally reached the Clinton years are really quite similar actually we were both brought up in the south both came from broken fan with no not actually also I did not attend an ivy league university yeah I'm actually nothing like Bill Clinton women who are smarter than we are 32 unfinished took wins presidency was focused on domestic policy and the sex scandal campaign War Room famously feature to sign that read it's the economy stupid is domestic Legacy is pretty complex though so we're going to start with foreign policy didn't feature as many foreign policy successes as Bush 41 but did have his moments like stration achieved a partial success with the 1993 Oslo Accords when Israel recognize the legitimacy of the Palestinian Liberation Organization however that eventually resulted in the field progressively less powerful as you may have noticed in the Middle East this case of bombing sending troops kind of something about Muslims before the NATO intervention but the fighting ended with the Dayton Accords where is the Rwandan Genocide which the Clinton Administration did absolutely nothing to prevent and where 800,000 people died in less than a month that is probably International community's greatest failure in the second half of the twentieth century and well certainly Clinton was among many people who were complicit in that including like me so far it's not such a good foreign policy record issue during Clinton's presidency the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time the USS Cole was attacked the most what do terrorist actor in Quinn's presidency was of course committed by Americans Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols who blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City fishing from domestic terrorism to domestic policy inside the Washington Beltway was it going to be some old-fashioned liberal who is all about raising taxes and funneling billions of dollars to Snuffaluffagus set centers and made him very elect what is first you domestic agenda items faltered like he tried to end the ban on gay people entering the military but opposition led him to compromise with the famous don't ask don't tell I listened to be homosexual with you in the military you just weren't allowed to acknowledge if Hillary who's also a failure not to have Universal Health Care scary it was too complicated to sell to us what's that said there was no web what do they use like a like a mobile app or something there was no apps I thought we were in my history on the heels of these policy in 1994 Democrats were swept out of Congress and Republicans took control of both the Senate and the house real name was Newt Gingrich and who would later run for president despite being named Newt Gingrich issued something called the contract with America it promised to cut government cut Max's cut regulation overhaul welfare and end affirmative action and this led to a government shutdown in 1995 over an inability to reach a budget agreement make between the Congress and the president all of these new Congressional Republicans very unpopular with the American people that's a whole and played in the Clinton's political strategy of single a strategy was to campaign against Radical Republicans while co-opting some of their ideas the most obvious example with his declaration in January 1996 the era of big government is over spoiler alert all of the things that actually cost the government a lot of money like Social Security and Medicare are very popular and both of those programs benefit old people who vote this proportionately because they have nothing to do since Murder She Wrote was cancelled however parts of the government 96 which deregulated broadcast responsibility and work Opportunity Act 96 families with dependent children program which had given money directly to poor mothers planes attacked including work requirements in time limits for total benefits plummeted in many Economist in victory in the nineteen is but it still controversial in many liberal people felt the Bill Clinton had betrayed them put going to still remain popular through much of his presidency largely because it really is the economy play in the economy got better by the time left Office Unemployment was below 4% which hadn't happened since the 1960s that meant there should have been inflation but somehow wasn't possibly because of increased Global competition the tip wages down and also Energy prices that were remarkably low as worldwide oil production increase microchips made it possible develop new products like personal computers and DVD players and video games and cell phones and crash course and completely transform the American workplace Wendy's people would go to work and they would sit in their offices at their desks and they would I don't know what they did because they didn't have computer has anything to done before computers books written how was The Godfather edited how was this glow Manna mean did some individual human hand sculpted from clay so no one of the economy got win stumbled on the biggest Innovation since like Wheels during the Clinton Administration to each other which might have remained like a military Communications network if computer scientist and entrepreneurs hadn't worked out how to use it to sell things this was the beginning of the e-commerce boom followed by an e-commerce but then another e-commerce boom which would eventually give us websites where you can buy crash-course DVDs like dftba.com and also lesser-known Commerce sites like eBay and Amazon  is here simple I read the mystery document I either get the author cracked or I get shocked okay here we go the information Highway will extend the electronic Marketplace and make it the ultimate go between the universal Middleman open the only humans involved in a transaction will be the actual buyer and the seller all the goods for sale in the world will be available for you to examine compare and often custom when you want to buy something you'll be able to tell your computer to find it for you at the best price offered by any acceptable Source or ask your computer to haggle with the computers of area information about vendors and their products and services will be available to any computer connected to the highway servers distributed worldwide will accept bids resolve offers into repeated transactions control authentication and security and handle all other aspects of the marketplace including the transfer of funds this will carry us into a new world of loaf fiction will overhead capitalism in which Market information will be plentiful and transaction costs low it will be a Shoppers Heaven stand that sounds like something that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would say no hanging Bill Gates damaged I enjoy this none the information superhighway it made all of this possible including my shock pen almost always bad news for someone else and that was certainly the case with the longest period of economic expansion in American history information technology enough Manufacturing in the pressure to manufacture cheaply pushed wages down and encourage companies to locate factories in countries with lower environmental regulations and also wages great for companies good for prices are good for workers in the developing world not so great for the environment chance also contributed to Global growth Capital could flow more easily anywhere in the world that this also meant that it can flow easily making Financial crises more likely good more widespread in the world in which the crash of 2008 was more or less inevitable mm into the stock market bubbles developed a greater percentage of Americans had become investors in what's an actual majority of them by the year 2010 many of these investors were buying into these hot new. Comstock's in fact the tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange sword 1998 and 1999 not a sustainable business model so maybe I'm wrong games were very unequal like when you adjust for inflation wages of non-supervisory workers remained below what they were in the 1974 it was even our old friend Eric foner reports that average after-tax income of the poorest 1/5 of Americans fell 12% and that of the middle 1/5 decreased by 3% while the income of the top increased by 38% in the majority of jobs being created in low-wage secure service Industries would continue into the 21st century the story of the 1990s why is my what is been called the culture wars enormously after immigration reform in 1965 between 1965 and 2000 duet song almost 24 million immigrants arrived compared with 27 million during the peak immigration period between 1880 and 1924 from Latin America and the Caribbean 35% came from Asia Only 10% came from Europe and most of them were from the former USSR in the Balkan has it always been the case most immigrants attracted by labor opportunities but now more were highly educated in fact 40% had college education let's go to the thought bubble are with Mexicans making up the largest contingent in by 2007 Latinos would replace African Americans as the second largest ethnic group significant economic gains during the 1990s African Americans still found their economic opportunities limited according to Eric foner in 2007 the total assets of the median family student $87,000 for black families the figure was $5,400 Central is 50% of marriages end in divorce out-of-wedlock births decline primarily because teenagers were practicing safe sex and teens and adults meditating before or instead of marriage event standard American household became only one of a number of accepted options Family Gay and trans people became increasingly visible in the National Consciousness as a result of the glbt rights movement and it was becoming safer for people to come out of the closet on the other hand AIDS epidemic which disproportionately affected the glbt community was disastrous by two thousand four hundred thousand Americans had died of AIDS bison imprisonment politicians competed with each other to see who could be tougher on crime and does the War on Drugs continued many state legislators passed three-strikes laws meaning that people who were convicted of three felonies would go to prison for life the number of Americans in prison skyrocketed by 2008 it was 2.3 million quarter of the total number of 8 on planet Earth thanks off of although I have to say I thought this was going to be a happy one I mean the economy is growing things are getting better for people in the glbtq community and then boom boom boom boom boom it's all terrible I don't want under the many benefits of our increased Prosperity but all of this sing culturalism and change made for a very tense political atmosphere seems like the open freewheeling liberalism of the 60s had run amok and those people really started to hate the clintons many flaws facelessness cigar smoking his biggest was his inability to stop cheating on his wife accusations of extramarital skoodilypooping while running for the presidential nomination which contributed to his unfortunate slick Willy moniker sued him for sexual harassment that had occurred allegedly occurred against it probably occurred investigators discovered that the president had carried on a sexual relationship with a young intern named Monica Lewinsky having sexual relations with Monica which was a lie unless you are President Bill Clinton and have a very narrow definition of sexual relations places for articles of impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice and so it was that the president of the United States was impeached for saying that he didn't have sex with a woman that he did have next week unless of course you define sex very narrowly and it all depends on what your definition of is is and its really 1999 Clinton was acquitted of these charges in a can vote that went right down party lines and he served out the remainder of his term but he was significantly weakened also he served out the remainder of his presidency sleeping on the couch really pivotal decade to the world that we live in right now a globalised multicultural Instagram filtered world grew within the United States that you already know inside of an echo chamber where your news doesn't necessarily resemble your neighbor's new in some ways Bill Clinton directed these changes but in most ways they Direct what that's what is so fascinating about history even the fancy people who get their heads on the chalkboard even they are subject to historical forces thanks for watching crash course is made of the help of all of these nice people and it's possible because of your support Crucible., voluntary subscription service that allows you pay monthly for crash course whatever you want so that we can keep it free for everyone forever real fun lots of cool 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