Presidential Scandals

 Achter, P. J. (2000). Narrative, intertextuality, and apologia in contemporary political scandals. Southern Communication Journal, 65, 318-333.

King, R. L. (1985). Transforming scandal into tragedy: A rhetoric of political apology. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 71, 289-301.

President William Jefferson Clinton: Testing the Boundaries of Apologia in Public and Private Spheres, Editorial Forum (1999). American Communication Journal, 2. http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol2/Iss2/curtain3.html (The articles by Benoit, Grombeck, & Kiewe in particular) Just obtain this yourself on-line - not at the library)

Ryan, H. R. (Ed.) (1988). Oratorical encounters: Selected studies and sources of twentieth-century political accusations and apologies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press

Simons, H. W. (2000). A dilemma-center analysis of Clinton's August 17th Apologia: Implications for rhetorical theory and method. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 86, 438-453.

Whaley, B. B., & Holloway, R. L. (1997). Rebuttal analogy in political communication: Argument and attack in sound bite. Political Communication, 14, 293-305.