Going Public: Domestic Speaking
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Barrett, A. W. (2005). Going public as a legislative weapon: Measuring presidential appeals regarding specific legislation. Presidential Studies Quarterly 35, 1-10.

Beasley, V. B. (2001). Making diversity safe for democracy: American pluralism and the presidential local address, 1885-1992. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 87, 25-40.

Cohen, J. E., & Powell, R. J. (2005). Building public support from the grassroots up: The impact of presidential travel on state-level approval. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 35, 11-27.

Erickson, K. V. (1998). Presidential spectacles: Political illusionism and the rhetoric of travel. Communication Monographs, 65, 1441-153.

Gring-Pemble, L. M. (2003). Legislating a "normal, classic family": The rhetorical construction of families in American welfare policy. Political Communication, 20, 473-498

Whitford, A. B., & Yates, J. (2003). Policy signals and executive governance: Presidential rhetoric in the war on drugs. Journal of Politics, 65, 995-1012.

Young, G., & Perkins, W. B. (2005). Presidential rhetoric, the public agenda, and the end of presidential television’s “Golden Age.” Journal of Politics, 67, 1190–1205.

Dozens of additional relevant articles can be found at Rhetoric bib