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| American Presidents: Life Portraits. A Site to Complement C-Span's Twentieth Anniversary Television Series, Mar-Dec. 1999. 14 Oct 2002. <http://www.americanpresidents.org/>. | |
| Presidential Libraries. National Archives and Records Administration. | |
| Program in Presidential Rhetoric. Center for Presidential Studies and Dept. of Speech Communication, Texas A&M. | |
| Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. National Archives and Records Administration. | |
| Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. National Archives and Records Administration. | |
| Achter, P. J. | "Narrative, Intertextuality, and Apologia in Contemporary Political Scandals." Southern Communication Journal 65 (2000): 318-333. |
| Alisky, Marvin. | "White House Wit: Presidential Humor to Sustain Policies, from Lincoln to Reagan." Presidential Studies Quarterly 20 (1990): 373-382. |
| Anderson, D. G. | "Power, Rhetoric, and the State: A Theory of Presidential Legitimacy." Review of Politics 50 (1988): 198-214. |
| Anderson, Karrin Vasby. | "From Spouses to Candidates: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, and the Gendered Office of U.S. President." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 105-132. |
| Ball, M. A. | "Political Language and the Search for an Honorable Peace: Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Their Advisors, and Vietnam Decision Making." Beyond Speech and Symbols: Explorations in the Rhetoric of Politicians and the Media. Ed. C. De Landtsheer & O. Feldman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 35-51. |
| Baskerville, Barnet. | "The Illusion of Proof." Western Journal of Communication 25 (1961): 236-242. |
| Beasley, Vanessa B. | "Engendering Democratic Change: How Three U.S. Presidents Discussed Female Suffrage." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 79-103. |
| ---. | "Identity, Democracy, and Presidential Rhetoric." Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas. Ed. R. P. Hart and B. H. Sparrow. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 19-34. |
| ---. | "Making Diversity Safe for Democracy: American Pluralism and the Presidential Local Address, 1885-1992." Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 25-40. |
| ---. | "The Rhetoric of Ideological Consensus in the United States: American Principles and American Pose in Presidential Inaugurals." Communication Monographs 68 (2001): 169-183. |
| ---. | You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2004. |
| Bennet, Gordon C. | "The Heckler and the Heckled in the Presidential Campaign of 1968." Communication Quarterly 27 (1979): 28-37. |
| Benoit, William L. | "Acclaiming, Attacking, and Defending in Presidential Nominating Acceptance Addresses, 1960-1996." Quarterly Journal of Speech 85 (1999): 247-267. |
| Berens, John F. | "Like a Prophetic Spirit." Quarterly Journal of Speech 63 (1977): 290-297. |
| Berquist, Goodwin F., and James L. Golden. | "Media Rhetoric: Criticism and the Public Perception of the 1980 Presidential Debates." Quarterly Journal of Speech 67 (1981): 125-137. |
| Black, Edwin. | "Electing Time." Quarterly Journal of Speech 59 (1973): 125-129. |
| Bostdorff, Denise M. | The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1993. |
| Bradley, Bert E. | "Jefferson and Reagan: The Rhetoric of Two Inaugurals." Southern Journal of Speech Communication 48 (1983): 119-136. |
| ---. | "A Response to "Two Inaugurals: A Second Look"." Southern Journal of Speech Communication 48 (1983): 386-390. |
| Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. | Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance. Chicagor: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990. |
| Carson, Herbert L. | "War Requested: Wilson and Roosevelt." Central States Speech Journal 10 (1958): 28-32. |
| Ceaser, J, Thurow, G. E., Tulis, J., & Bessette, J. M. | "The Rise of the Rhetorical Presidency." Presidential Studies Quarterly 11 (1981): 158-171. |
| Cohen, J. | "Presidential Rhetoric and the Public Agenda." American Journal of Political Science 39 (1995): 87-107. |
| Corcoran, P. E. | "Presidential Concession Speeches: The Rhetoric of Defeat." Political Communication 11 (1994): 109-131. |
| Cornfield, Michael. | "Presidential Rhetoric and the Credibility Gap." Communication Research 14 (1987): 462-469. |
| Dause, Charles A. | "Analysis of a Debate: Two Perspectives." Central States Speech Journal 23 (1972): 86-91. |
| Dorsey, Leroy G., ed. | The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership. College Station: Texas A&M U, 2002. |
| Dow, Bonnie J. | "The Function of Epideictic and Deliberative Strategies in Presidential Crisis Rhetoric." Western Journal of Speech Communication 53 (1989): 294-317. |
| Ellis, Richard, and Aaron Wildavsky. | ""Greatness" Revisited: Evaluating the Performance of Early American Presidents in Terms of Cultural Dilemmas." Presidential Studies Quarterly 21 (1991): 15-34. |
| Erickson, Keith V. | "Presidential Rhetoric's Visual Turn: Performance Fragments and the Politics of Illusionism." Communication Monographs 67 (2000): 138-157. |
| ---. | "Presidential Spectacles: Political Illusionism and the Rhetoric of Travel." Communication Monographs 65 (1998): 141-153. |
| Fields, Wayne. | Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence. New York: Free P, 1996. |
| Fisher, Walter R. | "Reaffirmation and Subversion of the American Dream." Quarterly Journal of Speech 59 (1973): 160-167. |
| ---. | "Rhetorical Fiction and the Presidency." Quarterly Journal of Speech 66 (1980): 119-126. |
| Friedenberg, Robert V. | ""Selfish Interests" or the Prerequisites for Political Debate: An Analysis of the 1980 Presidential Debate and its Implications for Future Campaigns." Journal of the American Forensic Association 18 (1981): 91-98. |
| Gelderman, Carol W. | All the Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency. New York: Walker, 1997. |
| Germino, Dante L. | The Inaugural Addresses of American Presidents: The Public Philosophy and Rhetoric. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1984. |
| Goggin, Malcolm L. | "The Ideological Content of Presidential Communications." American Politics Quarterly 12 (1984): 361-381. |
| Hart, Roderick P. | Verbal Style and the Presidency: A Computer Based Analysis. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984. |
| Highlander, John P., and Lloyd I. Watkins. | "A Closer look at the Great Debates." Western Journal of Communication 26 (1962): 39-48. |
| Ivie, Robert L. | "Presidential Motives for War." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (1974): 337-345. |
| Kane, Peter E. | "Evaluating the 'Great Debates'." Western Journal of Communication 30 (1966): 89-96. |
| Kaufer, David S. | "The Ironist and Hypocrite as Presidential Symbols: A Nixon-Kennedy Analogy." Communication Quarterly 27 (1979): 20-26. |
| Kerr, Harry P. | "The Great Debates in a New Perspective." Communication Quarterly 9 (1961): 9-11. |
| Kiewe, Amos, ed. | The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. |
| King, Robert L. | "Transforming Scandal into Tragedy: A Rhetoric of Political Apology." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (1985): 289-301. |
| Kuypers, Jim A. | Presidential Crisis Rhetoric and the Press in the Post-Cold War World. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. |
| Lim, Elvin T. | "Five Trends in Presidential Rhetoric: An Analysis of Rhetoric from George Washington to Bill Clinton." Presidential Studies Quarterly 32 (2002): 328-366. |
| Martin, Martha Anna. | "Ideologues, Ideographs, and "The Best Men": From Carter to Reagan." Southern Journal of Speech Communication 49 (1983): 12-25. |
| McClerren, Beryl F. | "Southern Baptists and the Religious Issue During the Presidential Campaigns of 1928 and 1960." Central States Speech Journal 18 (1967): 102-112. |
| Mehurst, Martin J., ed. | Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1996. |
| Murphy, John M. | "Knowing the President: The Dialogic Evolution of the Campaign History." Quarterly Journal of Speech 84 (1998): 23-40. |
| Olson, Kathryn M. | "Constraining Open Deliberations In Times of War: Presidential War Justifications for Grenada and the Persian Gulf." Argumentation and Advocacy 27 (1991): 64-79. |
| Parry-Giles, Shawn J. | The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. |
| Pauley, Garth E. | The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race From Roosevelt to Nixon. College Station: Texas A&M Up, 2001. |
| Peterson, Tarla Rae. | Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2004. |
| Phifer, Gregg. | "Two Inaugurals: A Second Look." Southern Journal of Speech Communication 48 (1983): 378-385. |
| Pratt, James W. | "An Analysis of Three Crisis Speeches." [Kennedy, Johnson, Eisenhower] Western Journal of Communication 34 (1970): 194-203. |
| Ray, Robert F. | "Ghostwriting in Presidential Campaigns." Communication Quarterly 4 (1956): 13-15. |
| Ritter, Kurt, and Martin J. Medhurst, eds. | Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2004. |
| Ryan, Halford Ross. | American Rhetoric from Roosevelt to Reagan. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland, 1983. |
| Samovar, Larry A. | "Ambiguity and Unequivocation in the Kennedy-Nixon Television Debates." Quarterly Journal of Speech 48 (1962): 277-279. |
| Stewart, Charles J. | "The Pulpit in Time of Crisis: 1865 and 1963." Communication Monographs 32 (1965): 427-434. |
| University of Washington Discourse Analysis Group. | "The Rhetorical Construction of a President." Discourse and Society 1 (1990): 189-200. |
| Weaver, Ruth Ann. | "Acknowledgement of Victory and Defeat: The Reciprocal Ritual." Central States Speech Journal 33 (1982): 480-489. |
| Wilson, Gerald L. | "Rhetorical Echos of a Wilsonian Idea." Quarterly Journal of Speech 43 (1957): 271-272. |
| Bush, George H. W., Sr., 1989-1992 | |
| Palczewski, Catherine Helen, and Arnie Madsen. | "The Divisiveness of Diversity: President Bush's University of Michigan Commencement Speech as an Example of the Linguistic 'Turnaround'." Argumentation and Advocacy 30 (1993): 16-27. |
| Rountree, J. Clarke. | "The President as God, the Recession as Evil: "Actus, Status", and the President's Rhetorical Bind in the 1992 Election." Quarterly Journal of Speech 81 (1995): 325-352. |
| Stuckey, Mary. | "Remembering the Future: Rhetorical Echoes of World War II and Vietnam in George Bush's Speech on the Gulf War." Communication Studies 43 (1992): 250-253. |
| University of Washington Discourse Analysis Group. | "The Rhetorical Construction of a President." Discourse and Society 1 (1990): 189-200. |
| Bush, George W., Jr., 2001-2004 | |
| Bostdorff, Denise. | "George W. Bush's Post-September 11 Rhetoric of Covenant Renewal: Upholding the Faith of the Greatest Generation." Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 293-319. |
| Gunn, Joshua. | "The Rhetoric of Exorcism: George W. Bush and the Return of Political Demonology." Western Journal of Communication 68 (2004): 1-23. |
| Zarefsky, David. | "George W. Bush Discovers Rhetoric: September 20, 2001, and the U. S. Response to Terrorism." The Ethos of Rhetoric. Ed. Michael J. Hyde. Greenville: U of South Carolina P, 2004. 136-155. |
| Carter, Jimmy, 1977-1981 | |
| Altenberg, Les, and Robert Cathcart. | "Jimmy Carter on Human Rights: A Thematic Analysis." Central States Speech Journal 33 (1982): 446-457. |
| Campbell, J. Louis. | "Jimmy Carter and the Rhetoric of Charisma." Central States Speech Journal 30 (1979): 174-186. |
| Kraig, Robert Alexander. | "The Tragic Science: The Uses of Jimmy Carter in Foreign Policy Realism." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 1-30. |
| Patton, John H. | "A Government as Good as its People: Jimmy Carter and the Restoration of Transcendance to Politics." Quarterly Journal of Speech 63 (1977): 249-257. |
| Cleveland, Grover, 1885-1889, 1893-1896 | |
| Hoffmann, Karen S. | "'Going Public' in the Nineteenth Century: Grover Cleveland's Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 57-77. |
| Clinton, William J., 1993-2001 | |
| Speech Archive. Clinton Presidential Center. | |
| Benoit, William L., A. A. Kluykovski, J. P. McHale, and D. Airne. | "A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Political Cartoons on the Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair. Critical Studies in Media Communication 18 (2001): 377-394. |
| Blaney, J. R., and William L. Benoit. | The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. |
| Brovero, Adrienne F. | "'Thirteen Angry Men': Dale Bumpers' ad hominem Argument in the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton. Argumentation and Advocacy 36 (2000): 218-226. |
| Butler, J. R. | "Somalia and the Imperial Savage: Continuities in the Rhetoric of War." Western Journal of Communication 66 (2002): 1-24. |
| Denton, Robert E., and R. L. Holloway, eds. | The Clinton Presidency: Images, Issues, and Communication Strategies. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. |
| Glinert, Lewis. | "Apologizing to the Nation." American Communication Journal 2.2 (February 1999). 27 July 2002. http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol2/Iss2/editorials/glinert/index.html. |
| Gronbeck, Bruce E. | "Underestimating Generic Expectations: Clinton's Apologies of August 17, 1998." American Communication Journal 2.2 (February 1999). 27 July 2002. http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol2/Iss2/editorials/gronbeck/index.html. |
| Hogan, J. Michael. | "Public Opinion and Journalistic Voyeurism: The lesson of the Clinton Apology." American Communication Journal 2.2 (February 1999). 27 July 2002. http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol2/Iss2/editorials/hogan/index.html |
| Holloway, R. L. | "Taking the Middle Ground: Clinton's Rhetoric of Conjoined Values." The 1996 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective. Ed. Robert E. Denton. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 123-141. |
| Kiewe, Amos. | "The Private vs. the Public: A Critical Assessment of Clinton's August 17, 1998 Address." American Communication Journal 2.2 (February 1999). http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol2/Iss2/editorials/kiewe/index.html. |
| Kramer, Michael R., and Kathryn M. Olson. | "The Strategic Potential of Sequencing Apologia Stases: President Clinton's Self-Defense in the Monica Lewinsky Scandal." Western Journal of Communication 66 (2002): 347-368. |
| Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Erika Falk, and Susan Scherr. | "The Enthymeme Gap in the 1996 Presidential Campaign." PS: Political Science and Politics 32 (1999): 12-16. |
| Louden, Allan. | "The Rhetoric of William Clinton: Selected Bibliography." Allan Louden's Academic Home Page. 17 Jul 2002. http://www.wfu.edu/%7Elouden/Political%20Communication/Bibs/Clinton.html. |
| Murphy, John M. | "Inventing Authority: Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Orchestration of Rhetorical Traditions." Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 71-89. |
| Parry-Giles, S. J., &T. Parry-Giles. | "Collective Memory, Political Nostalgia, and the Rhetorical Presidency: Bill Clinton's Commemoration of the March on Washington, August 28, 1998." Quarterly Journal of Speech 86 (2000): 417-437. |
| Simons, Herbert W. | "A Dilemma-Center Analysis of Clinton's August 17th Apologia: Implications for Rhetorical Theory and Method." Quarterly Journal of Speech 86 (2000): 438-453. |
| Smith, Stephen A., ed. | Bill Clinton on Stump, State, and Stage: The Rhetorical Road to the White House. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1994. |
| Snee, B. J. | "Clinton and Vietnam: A Case for Amnestic Rhetoric." Communication Quarterly 49 (2001): 189-202. |
| Waldman, Michael. | POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words that Defined the Clinton Presidency. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. |
| Walton, Douglas. | "Use of ad hominem Argument in Political Discourse: The Battalino Case from the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton. Argumentation and Advocacy 36 (2000): 179-195. |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1953-1961 | |
| Chernus, Ira. | Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2002. |
| ---. | General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2002. |
| Crable, Richard E. | "Ike: Identification, Argument, and Paradoxical Appeal." Quarterly Journal of Speech 63 (1977): 188-196. |
| Danielson, Waune A. | "Eisenhower's February Decision: A Study of News Impact." Journalism Quarterly 33 (1956): 433-441. |
| Freeley, Austin J. | "Ethos, Eisenhower, and the 1956 Campaign." Central States Speech Journal 9 (1958): 24-26. |
| Kennedy, Theodore R. | "Eisenhower as Extempore Speaker." Journal of Communication 8 (1958): 151-155. |
| Liftin, Duane A. | "Eisenhower on the Military-Industrial Complex: Critique of a Rhetorical Strategy." Central States Speech Journal 25 (1974): 198-209. |
| Marlin, Charles Lowell. | "Eisenhower Before the Press." Communication Quarterly 9 (1961): 23-25. |
| Medhurst, Martin J. | Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Communicator. Great American Orators 19. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1993. |
| Medhurst, Martin J., ed. | Eisenhower's War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership. East Lansing: Michigan State, UP, 1994. |
| Mueller, Jean West, and Wynell Burroughs Schamel. | ""Out of Fear and Into Peace": President Eisenhower's Address to the United Nations." Social Education 54 (1990): 163-164. |
| Sillars, Malcolm O. | "The Presidential Campaign of 1952." Western Journal of Communication 22 (1958): 94-99. |
| Stern, Mark. | "Presidential Strategies and Civil Rights: Eisenhower, the Early Years." Presidential Studies Quarterly 19 (1990): 769-796. |
| Ford, Gerald, 1974-1977 | |
| Hahn, Dan F. | "Corrupt Rhetoric: President Ford and the Mayaguez Affair." Communication Quarterly 28 (1980): 38-43. |
| Klumpp, James F., and Jeffrey K. Lukeheart. | "The Pardoning of Richard Nixon: A Failure in Motivational Strategy." Western Journal of Speech Communication 42 (1978): 116-123. |
| Jackson, Andrew, 1829-1837 | |
| Strickland, William M. | "The Rhetoric of Removal and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Speaking Against Jackson's Indian Removal Policy, 1828-1832." Southern Speech Communication Journal 47 (1981): 292-309. |
| Sullivan, John. | "Indecorous Argument: The Use of Madison and Monroe in the Election of 1828." Southern Speech Communication Journal 45 (1979): 378-393. |
| Jefferson, Thomas, 1801-1809 | |
| Browne, Stephen Howard. | "'Circle of Our Felicities': Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address and the Rhetoric of Nationhood." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 409-. |
| ---. | Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2003. |
| Hilbruner, Anthony, | "Word and Deed: Jefferson's Addresses to the Indians." Speech Monographs 30 (1963): 328-334. |
| Vivian, Bradford. | "Jefferson's Other." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (2002): 284-302. |
| Johnson, Lyndon B., 1963-1969 | |
| Selected Speeches of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. National Archives and Records Administration. | |
| Ball, Moya Ann. | "Revisiting the Gulf of Tonkin Crisis: An Analysis of the Private Communication of President Johnson and His Advisers." Discourse and Society 2 (1991): 281-296. |
| Bass, J. D. | "The Appeal to Efficacy as Narrative Closure: Lyndon Johnson and the Dominican Crisis, 1965." Southern Speech Communication Journal 50 (1985): 366-381. |
| Brooks, William D. | "A Field Study of the Johnson and Goldwater Campaign Speeches in Pittsburgh." Southern Speech Journal 32 (1966): 273-281. |
| Cherwitz, Richard A. | "Making Inconsistency: The Tonkin Gulf Crisis." Communication Quarterly 28 (1980): 27-37. |
| ---. | "Lyndon Johnson and the 'Crisis' of Tonkin Gulf: A President's Justification of War." Western Journal of Speech Communication 42 (1978): 93-104. |
| Connelly, F. Marvin | "Some Questions Concerning Lyndon Johnson's Rhetoric in the 1964 Presidential Campaign." Southern Speech Communication Journal 37 (1971): 11-20. |
| Gorden, William, and Robert Bunker. | "The Sentimental Side of Mr. Johnson." Southern Speech Journal 32 (1966): 58-66. |
| Hahn, Dan F. | "Archetype and Signature in Johnson's 1965 State of the Union." Central States Speech Journal 34 (1983): 236-246. |
| Hall, Robert N. | "Lyndon B. Johnson's Speaking in the 1941 Senate Campaign." Southern Speech Journal 30 (1964): 15-23. |
| ---. | "Lyndon Johnson's Speech Preparation." Quarterly Journal of Speech 51 (1965): 168-176. |
| Harding, H. F. | "Democratic Nominee: Lyndon B. Johnson." Quarterly Journal of Speech 50 (1964): 409-414. |
| Logue, Cal M., and John H. Patton. | "From Ambiguity to Dogma: The Rhetorical Symbols of Lyndon B. Johnson on Vietnam." Southern Speech Communication Journal 47 (1981): 310-329. |
| Patton, John H. | "An End and a Beginning: Lyndon B. Johnson's Decisive Speech of March 31, 1968." Today's Speech 21 (1973): 33-41. |
| Pauley, Garth E. | "Rhetoric and Timeliness: An Analysis of Lyndon B. Johnson's Voting Rights Address." Western Journal of Communication 62 (1998): 26-53. |
| Phelps, Waldo, and Andrea Beck. | "Lyndon Johnson's Address at the U.C.L.A. Charter Day Ceremony." Western Speech 29 (1965): 162-171. |
| Sigelman, Lee, and Lawrence Miller. | "Understanding Presidential Rhetoric: The Vietnam Statements of Lyndon Johnson." Communication Research 5 (1978): 25-56. |
| Smith, F. Michael. | "Rhetorical Implications of the 'Aggression' Thesis in the Johnson Administration's Vietnam Argumentation." Central States Speech Journal 23 (1972): 217-224. |
| Smith, Robert W. | "The 'Second' Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson: A Definitive Text." Speech Monographs 34 (1967): 102-108. |
| Weiss, Harold, and Haddon Robinson. | "Lyndon B. Johnson." Quarterly Journal of Speech 46 (1960): 241. |
| Witherspoon, Patricia. | ""Let Us Continue": The Rhetorical Initiation of Lyndon Johnson's Presidency." Presidential Studies Quarterly 17 (1987): 531-538. |
| Zagacki, Kenneth S. | "Rhetoric, Failure, and the Presidency: The Case of Vietnam." Communication Studies 43 (1992): 42-55. |
| Zarefsky, David. | "Civil Rights and Civil Conflict: Presidential Communication in Crisis." Central States Speech Journal 34 (1983): 59-66. |
| ---. | "The Great Society as a Rhetorical Proposition." Quarterly Journal of Speech 65 (1979): 364-378. |
| ---. | "Lyndon Johnson Redefines 'Equal Opportunity': The Beginnings of Affirmative Action." Central States Speech Journal 31 (1980): 85-94. |
| ---. | "President Johnson's War on Poverty: The Rhetoric of Three 'Establishment' Movements." Communication Monographs 44 (1977): 352-373. |
| ---. | "Subordinating the Civil Rights Issue: Lyndon Johnson in 1964." Southern Speech Communication Journal 48 (1982): 103-118. |
| Kennedy, John F., 1961-1963 | |
| Selected Speeches [of] John Fitzgerald Kennedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. | |
| Barrett, Harold. | "John F. Kennedy Before the Greater Houston Ministeral Association." Central States Speech Journal 15 (1964): 259-266. |
| Benson, Thomas W. | Writing J. F. K.: Presidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs Crisis. College Station: Texas A & M UP, 2003. |
| Berquist, Goodwin F. | "The Kennedy-Humphry Debate." Communication Quarterly 8 (1960): 2-3. |
| Bostrom, Robert N. | ""I Give You A Man"--Kennedy's Speech for Adlai Stevenson." Communication Monographs 35 (1968): 129-136. |
| Depoe, S. P. | "Space and the 1960 Presidential Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and 'Public Time'." Western Journal of Communication 55 (1991): 215-233. |
| Dorsey, Leroy G. | "The Myth of War and Peace in Presidential Discourse: John F. Kennedy's 'New Frontier' Myth and the Peace Corps." Southern Communication Journal 62 (1996): 42-55. |
| Golden, James L. | "John F. Kennedy and the 'Ghosts'." Quarterly Journal of Speech 52 (1966): 348-357. |
| Goldzwig, Steven R., and George N. Dionisopoulos. | "In a Perilous Hour": The Public Address of John F. Kennedy. Great American Orators 22. Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1994. |
| ---. | "John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Discourse: The Evolution from 'Principled Bystander' to Public Advocate." Communication Monographs 56 (1989): 179-198. |
| ---. | "Legitimating Liberal Credentials for the Presidency: John F. Kennedy and the Strategy of Peace." Southern Communication Journal 60 (1995) : 312-331. |
| Griffin, Leland M. | "When Dreams Collide: Rhetorical Trajectories in the Assassination of President Kennedy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 (1984): 111-131. |
| Harding, H. F. | "John F. Kennedy: Campaigner." Quarterly Journal of Speech 46 (1960): 362-364. |
| Jordan, John W. | “Kennedy’s Romantic Moon and Its Rhetorical Legacy for Space Exploration.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 6 (2003): 209-232. |
| Kennedy, Edward B. | "Another Look at Kennedy's Inaugural Address." Communication Quarterly 13 (1965): 17-19. |
| Kerr, Harry P. | "John F. Kennedy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 46 (1960): 241. |
| Murphy, John M. | "Crafting the Kennedy Legacy." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 3 (2000): 577-601. |
| Stelzner, Hermann G. | "Humphrey and Kennedy Court West Virginia, May 3, 1960." Southern Journal of Speech Communication 37 (1971): 21-33. |
| Wager, Gerald A. | "J. F. K. and the Offshore Islands." Communication Quarterly 15 (1967): 27-29. |
| Warnick, Barbara. | "Argument Schemes and Construction of Social Reality: John F. Kennedy's Address at the Houston Ministerial Association." Communication Quarterly 44 (1996) : 183-196. |
| Wolfarth, Donald. | "John F. Kennedy in the Tradition of Inaugural Speeches." Quarterly Journal of Speech 47 (1961): 124-132. |
| Lincoln, Abraham, 1861-1865 See Sources on Lincoln in The Rhetorical Lincoln pages. | |
| Nixon, Richard M., 1969-1974 | |
| Alexander, Frederick G. | "Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller." Quarterly Journal of Speech 47 (1960): 245. |
| Asen, Robert M. | "Nixon's Welfare Reform: Enacting Historical Contradictions of Poverty Discourses." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4 (2001): 261-279. |
| Baudhuin, E. Scott. | "From Campaign to Watergate: Nixon's Communication Image." Western Journal of Communication 38 (1974): 182-189. |
| Benoit, William L. | "Richard M. Nixon's Rhetorical Strategies in His Public Statements on Watergate." Southern Journal of Speech Communication 47 (1982): 192-211. |
| Benoit, William L., & W. T. Wells. | "An analysis of three Image Restoration Discourses on Whitewater." Journal of Public Advocacy 3 (1998): 21-37. |
| Benson, Thomas W. | "To Lend a Hand": Gerald R. Ford, Watergate, and the White House Speechwriters. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 (1998): 201-225. |
| Black, Edwin. | "The invention of Nixon." Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency. Ed. Martin J. Medhurst. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. 104-121. |
| Bochin, Hal W. | Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist. Great Orators. New York: Greenwood, 1990. |
| Bostdorff, Denise M. | "The Evolution of a Diplomatic Surprise: Richard M. Nixon's Rhetoric on China, 1952-July 15, 1971." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 31-56. |
| Brummett, Barry. | "Presidential Substance: The Address of August 15,1973." Western Journal of Communication 48 (1975): 249-259. |
| Carpenter, Ronald A., and Robert V. Seltzer. | "Nixon, Patton, and the Silent Majority Sentiment about the Viet Nam War: The Cinematographic Bases of a Rhetorical Stance." Central States Speech Journal 25 (1974): 105-110. |
| Chapel, William Gage. | "Speechwriting in the Nixon Administration." Journal of Communication 26 (1976): 65-72. |
| Condit, Celeste M. | "Nixon's "Fund": Time as Ideological Resource in the "Checkers" Speech." Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric. Ed. Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1989. 219-242. |
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