1. Nixon's Checkers Speech
Nixon's future in politics was on the line. ... Good speech analysis involves evaluating the speaker, audience and environment surrounding a speech (Cathcart 18). ... Nixon described the discovery of these allegations as a "bombshell on [his] train and a nuclear explosion on Eisenhower's" (Nixon 175). ... By noting sources like "the audit made by Price Waterhouse & Co. firm," and the "legal opinion [of] Gibson, Dunn & Krutcher," Nixon proves to the audience that what he is saying is indeed factual ("Nixon" 4). ... Critics felt that Nixon's speech was a "strange mixture of p...
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- Grade Level: High School