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section 3 vice president Bush was an obvious choice to succeed Ronald Regan. the democrats found more than half dozen candidates who erer eager to challenge Bush. Jackson fared even better in 1988 then he had in 1984. Bush received 53 percent of the popular vote to Dukakis's 46 percent. during the 1988 campaign, George Bush had spoken out strongly on the need to control the spread of illegal drugs. the government economists estimated that the cost of bailing out the S&LS would probably run more that $600 billion over 10 years. in the 1990s the collapse of many S&LS weakened the nation's banking system in general. George Bush firmly pledged not to raise taxes. during the election campaign of 1990 members of congess found voters in an angry mood. in 1989 the court struck down a texas law that had made burning the American flag a crime Bush called for a new amendment that would allow the states to outlaw defacing the flag. October 1 the automatic budget cuts called for in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings.

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in 1947 Gorge Kennan warned the president Truman that the U.S must act firmly to contain soviet aggression. in the 1990 the US and the soviet union found themselves on the same side. after the World War II the soviet dominated government had controlled the nations of eastern Europe. on November of 1989 the east German government stunned the world by announcing that it was opening the wall George Bush took less militant approach toward affairs in Nicaragua than Ronald Reagan had. on December 20, 1989 president Bush sent American military forces into Panama. the army tanks rumbled into Tiananmen Square. the south african government had continued to pursue the policy of apartheid in 1980s many American universities and some state governmets sold their stock in companies that operated in south Africa. in 1990 Mandela and De Klerk visited the US and met with president Bush. a worker from Florida lived for 23 days in a tiny crawl space 8 feet long and 3 feet wide and 3 feet high. Bush sent 200,000 additional troops to the middle east.