Clinton Impeachment trial, 1999

Election of 2000• Candidates: Al Gore and Joe

Lieberman (Democrat), George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (Republican), Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke (Green Party)

• The Winner: George W. Bush

• Popular Vote: 50,996,582 (Gore) to 50,465,062 (Bush)

• Electoral College: 271 (Bush) to 266 (Gore)

• The 2000 election was the fourth election in U.S. history in which the winner of the electoral votes did not carry the popular vote. It was the first such election since 1888, when Benjamin Harris became president after winning more electoral votes but losing the popular vote to Grover Cleveland.

Newt Gingrich

• June 17, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.

• Republican

Louis Farrakhan

Sandra Day O’Connor

Geraldine Ferraro

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Janet Reno

Madeleine Albright

Al Gore

Supply-side economics

Moral Majority

Contras

Sandinistas

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

AIDS

Operation Desert Storm

Internet

Human Genome Project

Dolly

Ronald Reagan

George Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Ross Perot

Mikhail Gorbachev

Manuel Noriega

Saddam Hussein