During the 1990's, many thing happened that would eventually shape how the the future would be.
Near the beginning of the 1990's, The Persian Gulf War was going on. As with the Vietnam War, the media was covering the majority of the war. But very unlike the Vietnam War, the Army more carefully controlled, showing only many of the good and lighthearted things about it. It was very much used as a way to display our power, and to show the people that we actually have this under control.
Also during this time was an election year. Running in this election would be Clinton. The thing is, Clinton had a lot of rumors and scandals going on that involved him. Because of this threat to his presidential campaign, he had put in place a "War Room", which took any negative information about him, turned it on it's head, and put it back out for the public. This saved him many times, but could not prevent the cheating scandal he would eventually have, and deny, and be used as a target many times by media and the other presidential candidate. It also did not prevent the rumor that he used went to college simply to dodge the draft for the Vietnam War.
Although these rumors did come out and slow his popularity growth a bit, it didn't stop him from eventually becoming president.
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ReplyDeleteGreat summary of the early 90's. I think it was groundbreaking that the gulf war was covered by the news, and people were able to see live, raw footage of the war. I think it also gave Americans confidence because they were able to see what a technological powerhouse their country had become after the Cold War.
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