Ronald Reagan's Farewell Speech

There are several notable speakers in our society today, but it takes special people to be able to flow and make their speeches coherent. While searching for a speaker and looking all over the internet for someone to analyze, I came across Ronald Reagan. For many years I have heard about how good of not only a president he was but a speaker also. After only ten minutes in his farewell speech, I knew that this was the right speech to survey. It shows good content, body language, and shows good presentation. He has some flaws, but nothing that was harmful to the speech itself.
January 11, 1989, Ronald Reagan gave his farewell to presidency in the oval office. In this speech, President Reagan gives very good content. Everything that should be included in a farewell speech was. He rarely talked about problems that were happening at that point, but what he had accomplished while being in office. He thanks people and makes sure that everyone knows how thankful he was to
He does not move his hands or show them at that. He keeps them by his side and makes facial expressions. The ones that he makes are good in the fact that they make the audience feel like he is connecting with them. The audience that he is talking to is not live, but he is talking through a camera which is similar to the same thing. He gives the speech just like he would if he was in front of a live audience. It makes good eye contact with the camera and it feels like he is looking at them the entire time. He rarely looks down at his notes and that is one thing I like about a speaker. Also, he does not make any gestures. You can see half of his body, but his hands, shoulders, and head hardly makes a move. He is very concentrated on his speech, yet he makes good facial expressions. He uses humor in some instances, but it is just the right amount. In some speeches that I heard before his, they used too much humor and it soon became annoying to listen