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 Chapter 24: Section 3
 * In 1988, Vice President George Bush broke a 152-year old tradition by becoming the first Vice President to become the President, directly following his Vice Presidency, since Martin Van Buren.
 * The Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson led the democratic Group.
 * Jesse Jackson was the first African American to seek nomination for a major party.
 * Lloyd Bensten was Dukakis' running mate.
 * On Election day Bush received 53% of the popular vote. He took 426 electoral votes to Dukakis' 111 electoral votes.
 * Bush won a medal for bravery while being a pilot during World War II.
 * He promised that he was going to make our country a kinder, gentler nation.
 * He appointed William Bennett to be a special "drug czar" to oversea the nations war on drugs.
 * William Reilly was appointed the head of Environmental Protection agency.
 * 17 military plants that had manufactured nuclear weapons were shut down.
 * Bush set up a federal agency to take over the failed banks, sell them, or sell off their assets.
 * the cost of bailing out S&L's was estimated to run the government around $600 billion over 10 years.
 * Bush created the Capital Gains Tax cut which is selling your stocks for a profit in order to earn a tax cut.
 * The new budget agreement had reduced the deficit more than any legislation during the Reagan years.
 * Political leaders faced an angry public, the public in 14 states elected to congress the opposite party that was already in there.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">In 1989, the supreme court ruled that the burning of the flag is protected under the first amendment.

Chapter 24: Section 4 <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">George Kennan was the first to announce that we should contain soviet aggression, but in 1989 he announced that the cold war was over.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">The Berlin Wall was taken down in November of 1989 to signify the end of the Cold War.