ABSTRACT
THE YEAR 2000 ARRIVED without the feared catastrophe of a worldwide computer crash (Y2K). It was an election year and the result of that election would herald a new president for the early years of the next millennium. The election was to be decided on November 7. The day came and went. It was all over except for the counting. The election of 2000 was uncomfortably close and fiercely contested but a wise nation held together as it embarked upon the new millennium. President George W. Bush reached out to embrace all Americans in his Inaugural Address: “What you do is as important as anything the government does. I ask you . . . to be citizens not spectators; citizens, not subjects.”
