Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg.

By:

Jensen, Richard J

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781603444620

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973.927092

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E877.2 -- .J46 2007eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Ronald Reagan's Remarks at a Commemorative Ceremony at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in the Federal Republic of Germany May 5, 1985 -- Ronald Reagan: A Maddeningly Contradictory Figure -- Reagan as Ceremonial Speaker -- Events Leading to Speeches at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg -- From the Ashes Has Come Hope -- A Seminal Symbolic Disaster: Reagan at Bitburg, May 5, 1985 -- Ronald Reagan's Remarks at a Joint German- American Ceremony at Bitburg Air Base in the Federal Republic of Germany May 5, 1985 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: Reagan's inability to sway the public and press with his speeches at the former site of the infamous concentration camp and, later, at the U.S. Air Force base in Bitburg, Germany, has been marked by many as the first major failure of the Great Communicator's second term. Jensen highlights the qualities of the speeches that make them, in his estimation, models of presidential discourse and considers the setting for the speeches that doomed them despite their eloquence.

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Reagan's inability to sway the public and press with his speeches at the former site of the infamous concentration camp and, later, at the U.S. Air Force base in Bitburg, Germany, has been marked by many as the first major failure of the Great Communicator's second term. Jensen highlights the qualities of the speeches that make them, in his estimation, models of presidential discourse and considers the setting for the speeches that doomed them despite their eloquence.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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