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American Rhetoric: Presidents and Their Speeches

-What is rhetoric? -Why is presidential rhetoric so important? -How and why do the presidents words affect American society? -Are presidential speeches viewed differently by Americans and by foreigners?

Who said this? When (context)? What does it mean? Why is it important?
1. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. 2. America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. 3. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard..

What are some common themes among the six presidential speeches in your course packet? How are these themes present (or not present) in America today? What is the connection between these themes and the Constitution/Bill of Rights/Dec of

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