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Rhetorical Analysis Of The Great Society Speech

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Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States (1963-69). A moderate Democrat and vigorous leader in the United States Senate. His speech on “The Great Society” was for a change and for the well of the U.S in which he quoted, “The purpose of protecting the life of our nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people. Our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a nation”. He believed and said in his speech that the Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. The audience was the main reason for this speech, people of that time were in division of races and this speech mostly concentrated and demanded to end poverty and racial injustice, to which they were totally committed in that time. This Great Society, Johnson proclaims, is no finished work but a challenge constantly renewed, indicating us toward a destiny where
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Johnson was trying to covey were that education is important in live in order to have a better society and he wanted to do something about the poverty which was one of the main issues at the time, he also quoted, “Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty”. His quote was quite inspirable and he wanted people to take advantage and learn more and more so they can use all that education in life time to get out of poverty. He wanted teachers to be well trained to prepare youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. “We are going to assemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for America”. This tells us how fair and worried he was for the country and the people and the best solution for poverty which was associated with knowledge which he was trying to get from all around the world in pieces and gathered all up for future elementary and high school

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