IP 611 Sample Proposal General Topic: Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech (1952) Why: It is the first great demonstration in America of the use and power of television to shape politics. As with Nixon himself‚ the speech was brilliant‚ bare knuckles and mawkish‚ all at once. By going over the heads of the press in directly appealling to the American people‚ this speech saved Nixon’s political career‚ delivered a hard (and some would say low) blow back on his political opponents (especially
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The purpose of Richard Nixon’s famous “Checkers” Speech is to inform Americans as to why he used $18‚000 from a group of his supporters and to persuade them of the truth. He also aims to reveal the flaws in the standing government. The audience of the speech is American citizens who were of voting age at the time and who owned a television. or radio with which to watch or listen to the public address. The genre is a political speech. Richard Nixon’s stance is expressing his story and his reasoning
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“The Checkers Speech” It was the midst of the 1952 presidential campaign when the New York Post’s newspaper story came out accusing Senator Richard Nixon of having a secret political fund. This accusation caused Nixon to face the reality of virtually being dropped as the presidential candidate of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running mate. On September 23‚ 1952‚ Nixon sat down to address one of the largest television audiences in political history until Nixon’s 1960 debate with John F. Kennedy. While millions
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"Checkers‚" The American Dog in Disguise: A Rhetorical Analysis of Nixon’s Address In "The Checkers Speech‚" Richard Nixon responds to criticism regarding an alleged "secret fund." At this time‚ 1952‚ Nixon was running for vice president with presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower was enjoying enormous popularity when the rumor surfaced one month before the election. Nixon was accused of accepting a supplemental salary of $18‚000 dollars‚ contributed by a group of supporters
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Period 6 December 2015 “Checkers”: Annotative Bibliography In the 1950’s‚ people were heavily persuaded by people in the same social class because they could effortlessly relate to each other’s financial well being‚ thus bringing them together as a unit. In his speech “Checkers”‚ Richard Nixon wields an honest and confident tone that portrays him as a middle class man in order to allow his audience to connect with him‚ thus saving his presidential campaign. The way that Nixon related and persuaded
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fusion of computers and electronic industries has revolutionized such fields as communication‚ education‚ medicine‚ entertainment‚ and business and industry. Almost every field is said to be automated. In this perspective‚ a computerized examination checker‚ which automatically checks test papers‚ is one of the electronic products that has brought about significance to universities in automating the checking of examination papers. For this reason‚ the MMSU particularly the
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Introduction Checkers supermarket is a regular shopping destination since it was bought by Shoprite holdings.it operates stores throughout South Africa and other countries. Checkers supply products range that meets their customer needs. Vision and mission are essentially apprehensive with the route in which checkers wants to go and the type of the supermarket it intend to be and how it plan to get there. According to authors gamble J.E and Thompson A.A 2011.essentials strategic management-the quest
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Tyler Drag Mike Hainzinger English 101 12 November 2014 “Resigning the Presidency” In August of 1974‚ Richard M. Nixon spoke to the American public on national television and announced his decision to resign from his presidency. The collapse of support in the Congress marked the end of Nixon’s two-year battle against news media‚ government agencies‚ the Senate and House of Representatives and the U.S. Supreme Court - all stemming from a break-in that occurred on the night of June 17‚ 1972‚
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What was President Nixon’s involvement in ending the war? By: Hailey Hazlett When Richard Nixon became president in 1969‚ the whole vietnam war fell on his plate and it was up to him to decide how he was going to handle this issue. When he took office the U.S had been sending troops to Vietnam since 1965‚ in those 4 years 31‚000 american lives had been lost due to the war. Previously before him‚ President JFK had plans to take troops out gradually and attempt to strengthen the South Vietnamese army
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Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford both gave incredibly powerful speeches‚ however‚ they both wrote these in a very different manner. Richard Nixon was very blunt while Ford repeated himself and prolonged his speech. In the second paragraph of Nixon’s speech‚ he stated‚ “..it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the congress to justify continuing that effort” (Address Announcing Resignation). In just the second paragraph of his speech‚ he wants to let it be
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