Introduction Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech, delivered on September 23, 1952, during his campaign as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in American political history. In this essay, we will conduct a rhetorical analysis of Nixon's Checkers Speech, examining the persuasive techniques and strategies employed by Nixon to address allegations of financial impropriety and win public support. By delving into the speech's rhetorical elements, we can gain insight into Nixon's effective use of ethos, pathos, and...
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President Donald J. Trump and Richard Nixon are known for setting famous “firsts” in history. Nixon devoted his entire life to the world of politics, whereas Trump has never held a single political office before becoming president. Then we have Trump who has been impeached twice by the House of Representatives and contrastingly, there is Nixon who resigned before the impeachment process began during the Watergate Scandal. Towards the end of the Trump presidency, after the insurrection of the United...
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After Being chosen by Dwight D. Eisenhower as a running mate in the election of 1952, allegations were made by the New York Times that Richard Nixon had accepted bribes throughout his career in exchange for government influence. Under normal circumstances a vice-president candidate would have denied any such claims and then stepped off the ticket to save face, however the medium of television was finally coming into play in politics. Nixon wrote and delivered a televised speech in which...
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At the age of twenty-six, American author Joe McGinniss wrote what would become one of American history’s most influential political books, The Selling of the President 1968. This work was originally published in 1969 after President Richard Nixon took office. It was later reprinted in 1988 with the title The Selling of the President. This 252-page, non-fictional book only took McGinniss four months to produce. He wrote the book in a way that was easy to understand and that allowed...
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For Richard Nixon, ending the war in Vietnam was one of his promises made during his election campaign in 1968. He saw that there was monumental opposition to the war by the American Public and by some members of Congress which ultimately led him to declare that he was “going to stop that war. Fast.” (Lawrence p138). This promise might have appealed to the American public, however, it has proven to be a much harder promise to fulfill due to...
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My plan was to go to the Nixon Library with a few of my friends as a way to spend time with them. Since graduating high school, a lot of my friends went to different schools, so trying to allocate time with all of them is a headache. Until my grandparents overheard about this project where they basically invited themselves. But it turned out to be a fun day. We went to Polly’s Pie to eat a quick breakfast and...
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The United States of America makes roughly 5 percent of the world population, yet funny enough it houses more than 25 percent of all people incarcerated throughout the world (Coates). The hardest hit communities are by far those of color in urban areas. This paper will focus on how America used the War on Drugs to wage war against its own citizens, those of color anyway. It will look at policies set forth by the war and how it systematically...
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The 1950s saw television, then considered a new medium for political coverage, rapidly surpassing radio and even newspapers as the major source of public information about politics by the 1960s. It became a serious competitor of newspaper for advertising revenue and for consumers time as it had a major growth in the early and middle 1950s. Newspapers were still prospering which at first made the arrival of television look like a minimal threat, however with time publishers and editors started...
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