TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jensen,Richard J.
TI  - Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg
T2  - Library of Presidential Rhetoric
SN  - 9781603444620
AV  - E877.2 -- .J46 2007eb 
U1  - 973.927092 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A&M University Press
KW  - Reagan, Ronald -- Oratory
KW  - Reagan, Ronald -- Travel -- Germany -- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) -- Public opinion
KW  - Reagan, Ronald -- Travel -- Germany -- Bitburg -- Public opinion
KW  - Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Presidents -- United States -- Language -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Political oratory -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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