Analysis Of Jimmy Carter's Speech: A Crisis Of Confidence

One of Jimmy Carter's famous pastimes is teaching Sunday school, or being involved in the Christian church in general, “I participated in Sunday school and church while I was in office. When I was governor, I was a deacon in the Baptist Church"(Bailey). Even after his presidency Jimmy Carter holds true to his Christian upbringing by continuing to teach Sunday school. Many of Jimmy Carter's accomplishments were positive. On the contrary, during the Iran hostage crisis Carter did not retaliate with violence and tried to negotiate peacefully.

The Administration of Ronald Reagan is most closely associated with the victory over communism than any other president for a number of reasons. Reagan’s hardline approach as an anti-communist was seen in his election campaign, and spanned throughout his years in office. He blamed Jimmy Carter for the failures to protect developing nations from communism, and worse than anything, the Iranian Hostage Crisis. As the one who publicly demanded the Soviet Premier to tear down the Berlin Wall, he received acclaim from around the world as a crusader for the anti-communism campaign. The release of the prisoners from captivity in Iran, to the operation in Grenada, provided a platform for President Reagan and his administration to become titans in the

President Reagan voices his opinion in hopes that his speech will succeed and the gates will open. Every other speaker is hoping the same thing, that the government will listen to what they are saying and make a change. Though, the people know that their government wants to keep the people safe, it may not be the best choice that is out there. “...for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.” (Eidenmuller, 3) President Reagan is saying that without freedom there can be no world peace.

This is a crucial speech because Carter says what he needs to unite his country. A country needs to have faith in their fellow citizens, trust in their type of government, and most importantly believe in their leader in order to

The time between 1974 and 1988 was filled with the need to recover. The United States had recently withdrawn from the ever controversial Vietnam War, and the next year Richard Nixon resigned, giving America a new president, Gerald Ford. While communist regimes were overrunning countries and the Vietnamese were still at war, America was enduring yet another economic crisis, but also inventing BASIC computer language. The OPEC oil crisis badly damaged the U.S. economy, sent it into recession, and the country had to fight for recovery; meanwhile, the advancements in computer technology were forever changing the history of the world. These were two defining events and distinctive features of the time.

This scholarly article focuses on Presidents of the United States. Clark writes to tell us how Presidents are seen as symbols in the US, how they are the voice of public, and should work to help the public. As stated here “American presidents are symbolic leaders of the American people. In this democracy their words and deeds must capture concerns of the public for them to be elected and to maintain public "confidence," as registered in some recent years in nightly polls.” here talking about how the president is the one elected to help run the country and must run things in a way so that the concerns of the public can be met and calmed.

Carter eventually got Israel and Egypt to agree to peace and once he did, on a flight back to Washington D.C. from Camp David, he called Ford with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to inform the former president about the newly made peace. This is just one example of their great friendship that Carter gave in his speech about Gerald Ford. This story along with several other memories shared really helped to stir the

Although Ronald Reagan’s speech about the Challenger explosion was given during a time of great sorrow, the speech was successful for being a way to unite the country as one to deal with the loss as a whole, and to bear the weight of such a horrific tragedy together. With the Challenger disaster being the first one of the space program to have deaths in flight, the United States was completely shocked by the misfortune of the shuttle. Ronald Reagan’s speech on the disaster was a way to have the nation not blame the space program for the deaths of the astronauts, but a way to have the nation face the disaster with strength and push through the event with more courage than before and to continue exploration into space. Ronald Reagan begins his speech by addressing the nation and stating how he is exempting the State of the Union

The thirty seventh president’s tone throughout the speech was genuine and anguished. He stated frequently his regret towards his resignation; when this passage is read aloud, it is stressed heavily on pathos and that Nixon defended his decision with the selflessness of his own emotions and did what is better for the country (“American”). In his speech, Richard Nixon establishes his credibility and then goes on to show the logic of why he is resigning along with sparking the reader’s emotions in defense of him through the use of frequent fallacies and rhetorical devices. Nixon goes on to speak of his accomplishments and the tasks he hopes the American people will achieve with a new president, but those ideas are shadowed by the steady reminders by Nixon himself of the circumstances that are causing him to resign the Presidency that overall make Nixon’s arguments to logic and his credibility seem

His inclusion of analogies and emotional appeals, combined with his strong sense of authority, brings his arguments into focus and gives them a punch. His power in delivering this speech quite possibly kept America looking towards the stars and propelled them into the next age of space exploration. President Reagan’s speech serves as a touching conclusion to a tragic event. Despite the terrible catastrophe, Reagan’s four-minute speech provided closure on the one-minute tragedy whose impact will be felt for

Bush but considered to be of the active-positive presidential personality type. In Chapter 13, he predicts what President Carter might be like, what happened during his presidential career, his character relating to the position, and the outcome of his term. Barber compiled this chapter’s beginnings before President Carter was sworn in and the endings once he left the Office (Barber, 2008). I appreciated that aspect, especially since feelings can shift as time goes on. Barber does reflect on his feelings and hopes of President Carter pre-term and details what he correctly or incorrectly predicted.

“As a matter of fact, I visited Poland, Yugoslavia and Romania, to make certain,” continued Ford. Jimmy Carter came out with the win that year.’’ (Cramer, 2016) So the debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford really helped open the eyes of the audience to know who they should vote for as their next

Carter was not reelected after his four years of being president, but he continued to bring peace in foreign nations and help the United States with foreign relationships. Overall most people considered Jimmy Carter to be a president who did not do as much as he should have as president. Carter’s failures are what the people see instead of his improvements he made to foreign policy and the United States economy. Instead of people seeing how Carter ended the war between Israel and Egypt all they saw was how Carter failed to rescue the hostages from Tehran. Two things that people often forget is how Carter deregulated airlines and beer.

Tragedies, they will happen without a hint of awareness but they cannot be stopped or answered for. When they do occur it leads people to shock and grief. However tragedies brings forth something that gives people unity, hope, and direction. This something is called a leader and throughout history many people have embodied this quality. There are many instances where people have stood up an embodied this quality.

On December 8th, 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a speech to the House of Representatives, Members of the Senate, the House Speaker, to the Vice President, and to the American people. Franklin spoke of the incident of the attack on Pearl Harbor the day after it occurred. Mr. Roosevelt was stern and concise. He spoke on the occasion of tragedy to inform the House and the American people what the Japanese have done.