The Right Words Great Republican Speeches

Award-winning presidential scholar and speechwriter Wynton Hall brings together the Republican Party's greatest oratorical gems, from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Teddy Roosevelt's the Man with the Muckrake to Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and George W. Bush's "our mission and our moment" speech after 9/11. Hall examines the historical context of each of these great addresses and reveals the persuasive secrets that make each speech truly outstanding.

Wynton C. Hall is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. An award-winning presidential scholar, speechwriter, and author, Hall holds an M.A. from Texas A&M University in speech communication with an emphasis in presidential rhetoric and public affairs. In 2003, he was appointed to the eight-person National Task Force on the Presidency and Public Opinion, which is composed of some of the top presidential scholars in the United States. Hall is the coauthor of The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life (Wiley). His work has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Times, Presidential Studies Quarterly, National Review Online, and elsewhere.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Elephant Poachers
Leftist Academe and the Erasure of Republican Remembrance
Abraham Lincoln
The First and Greatest
The Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863, Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Second Inaugural
March 4, 1865, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C
Theodore Roosevelt
The Rough-Riding Rhetorician
The Strenuous Life
April 10, 1899
The Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois
The Man with the Muck-Rake
April 15, 1906
Washington, D.C
William F. Buckley Jr
American Conservatism Finds Its Spokesman in the Speech That Wasn't
Yale Alumni Day Speech
February 1950 (Undelivered), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strategic Speechifying
Atoms for Peace
December 8, 1953
United Nations General Assembly, New York, New York"
Little Rock"
September 24, 1957, Oval Office
The White House Washington, D.C
Everett Dirksen
The Speech That Made the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Possible
"The Time Has Come"
June 10, 1964, U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C
Barry Goldwater
"You Know He's Right"
"Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice"
July 16, 1964
Republican National Convention, the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California
Richard M. Nixon
The Beginning of the End
"Checkers"
September 23, 1952, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C
Gerald R. Ford
"Our Long National Nightmare Is Over"
Oath of the U.S. Presidency
August 9, 1974, East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C
Ronald Reagan
A Shining Speaker on a Hill
"The Evil Empire"
March 8, 1983
Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida
Challenger
January 28, 1986 Oval Office
The White House, Washington, D.C
"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall"
June 12, 1987
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
Newt Gingrich
The Revolutionary Speaker
"The Contract with America"
January 4, 1995
Inaugural Speech as Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C
George W. Bush
His Mission and His Moment
"Justice Will Be Done"
September 20, 2001
Joint Session of Congress, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C
John McCain
The Maverick and His Message
"A Disingenuous Filmmaker"
August 30, 2004
Republican National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
Notes
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