Reagan also goes on during the later portions of his speech to reiterate the fact that other countries that have accepted democracy are flourishing, “In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth. In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place” (Reagan par. 16). These claims were backed up by Reagan’s economic policies he promoted as president, which in short, focused around the key principles of reducing the growth of government spending, reducing the federal income tax, reducing government regulation, and reducing inflation. His experience in this area helped him speak fluently Every line that Reagan utters has purpose and is not put to waste, every line is used to convince the Germans to gravitate towards his cause of being more like the United States by embracing Western Democracy. Reagan is hopeful during his speech and wishes to see Berlin be triumphant and succeed once again as a nation, this is seen throughout the central theme of his speech as he urges the Germans take his advice and tear down the wall and let go of communist principles. Overall, Reagan’s argumentation during the, “Address from the Brandenburg Gate” was incredibly effective. His audience rallied behind his words as he spoke them, and that is exactly what he wanted. Also, Reagan’s speech was given right in the middle of a key time during efforts to end the Cold War. Reagan had established a relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev the current leader, of the Soviet Union and had recognized the change in the direction of the Soviet leadership under his rule. This relationship lead to Reagan making arms agreements with the Soviets with the intent to achieve a world without any nuclear weapons at all. Eventually Reagan and Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. Reagan also believed that if he could persuade the Soviets to allow for more democracy and free speech, this would lead to reform and the For instance, he doesn’t bring any data concerning technological advances in the West or the dwindling food supplies in communist countries. Reagan uses a lot of historical references, but doesn 't provide any solid data on the poor conditions in Russia or the scale of the success of the Japanese and West German economies. Bringing hard evidence concerning his different arguments could have made his speech much more convincing. Nevertheless, twenty-nine months after Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Gorbachev allowed the people of Berlin to take down the wall, ending the Soviet domination of Eastern Germany. After leaving the White House, Reagan returned to Germany in September 1990, just a few weeks before Germany was officially reunified and with a hammer he took several symbolic swings at a remaining chunk of the Berlin
Ronald Read ran a campaign based on lowering taxes, and strong national defense. In his first inaugural address, he emphasized the important to conserving the power of an us control our own destinies. He also says that government is not a solution to the problem that they are the problem. During his term, he decreases the size of federal government and supported policies and reforms that he believed empowered individuals. Reagan also worked to reduce federal spending on home programs, due to his concerns about the constitutionality of those programs. He called for finances cuts, mostly from great Society programs. while not touching Medicare and Social security, Reagan authorized cuts in federal schooling programs, food stamp programs, workplace programs, and other non-military domestic programs. Believing the U.S. had left out the military after the Vietnam war, and because the cold battle continued, Reagan asked for increased funds to reinforce the military. The decrease in taxes and growth in army spending ended in the biggest budget deficits in the united states’ records to that time. The deficits persisted each year, however Reagan vowed to veto any tax increases Congress
As we move into the reelection year, the authors accuse Nancy of ensuring that Reagan hasn’t campaigned for eight months, following a “Rose Garden strategy.” But Reagan has no credible opponent for the 1984 nomination, and Walter Mondale, who will be his Democratic opponent in the general election, has not yet been nominated. So there is no need for a strategy, Rose Garden or otherwise. Of course we get the full chapter and verse on Reagan’s poor performance in his first debate with Mondale; at least we also get the report on the second debate. From there the narrative jumps to the Iran-Contra affair. A few high points — like the Berlin Wall speech in 1987 — are indeed included, but without any perspective on Reagan’s strategy, perseverance with the Soviets on arms control, or success in revitalizing the U.S. economy. Nothing is said about Reagan’s four second-term summits with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Except for a few comments that Reagan deplored Communism, this is a policy-free book, and a book
Eisenhower’s foreign policy was about containment and trying to discourage other countries from joining it by giving them financial and military aid. When he realized that containment itself was not enough to stop the Soviet expansion, he adopted a policy which he called massive retaliation whereby the U.S. was prepared to use atomic weapons if they were to be attacked. He tried diplomacy to develop relation with the Soviets even agreeing to join other leaders in Geneva Switzerland with the intention to calm the temperatures between the two nations. When diplomacy didn’t work, he signed a bill that allowed countries to request economic and military help from the U.S. if they are being attacked by a communist nation. Cold War did not end until after Ronald Reagan’s time as president when he challenged the leader of the Soviet to take down the Berlin wall which was the most recognizable symbol of the Cold War. At this time, the Soviet Union was disintegrating and its influence in Eastern Europe was waning fast bringing the war to an
Above all else, Reagan uses the speech to inspire
Ronald Reagan was one of the most liked Presidents. When being elected for his second term, he won by a landslide—winning all the states minus Minnesota and Washington D.C. Reagan addresses the people of the United States of America. He wants the American people to reflect on his presidency, and as all presidents do in their farewell addresses, he wants to say goodbye to the nation that he's led for the past eight years. Ronald Reagan uses repetition, parallel structure, and allusion to reflect on his presidency and to say farewell to the American people.
Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States of America during the Cold War era. On January 28th, 1986, he gave a speech to discuss the tragedy of the Challenger Space Shuttle, which exploded in atmosphere. The speech was delivered in the Oval Office during his State of the Union Address. He was attempting to inform and comfort America about the disaster. The author uses multiple rhetorical devices in his speech. The importance of these devices is to convey a goal of the author to persuade the reader to a certain perspective. A speaker uses these devices to give the speech more impact. Rhetorical and persuasive devices can make a speech more effective since the devices can use emotional and logical appeal. In this speech, Reagan does not use very many complicated devices, but he does use appeal, anaphora, repetition, and allusion.
...speech to the world where he was quoted as saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The speech was given at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin (“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall: President Ronald Reagan”). This speech signified the beginning of the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. President Reagan’s foreign policy tactics are another reason why he was a great president.
In order to succeed as an admired and respected leader of his country, Ronald Reagan’s voice is inspiring and patriotic yet able to reach a strong sense of compassion, which assures his people that he will guide their nation to prosperity. During his administration, Reagan had a pellucid vision for his country and for the direction he hoped it would move towards. Reagan’s rhetorical style is crucial in characterizing him as a president. Not only does he present his own voice in his speeches, he speaks for his nation. Reagan displays strong will and integrity in his character, all while being capable of connecting and empathizing with his audiences. He establishes a relationship with his people by giving them his respect and showing that he
The Soviets could clearly see that when Reagan. said he wanted a "margin of safety." He meant that the United States should be. superior to the Russians. Moscow would not let this happen. They wanted equality.5 Reagan also believed in military power and respect for America abroad.
He asks a question in his speech, “Can we solve the problems confronting us?” and then shortly after he answers, “Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic, yes.” expressing the power of America by using great word choice. By using the words unequivocal and emphatic we see that Reagan is confident in America and his people. After stating the above, later on in his speech he says, “I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.” showing us Americans must work hard. Ronald Reagan clearly does not think making America great will just happen, he believes that people must work hard to achieve greatness. Reagan also says, “With the idealism and fair play… we can have a strong and prosperous America…” allowing us to see that greatness is there we just have to work for it.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” (Reagan 361) This line, while so simple, is probably the most famous from the whole speech and arguably one of Ronald Reagan 's most famous and recognizable lines ever. It sends a glaringly strong message that the United States and entire free world wants to bring Germany together not just for its own personal interests but because it genuinely cares about the state of the country. This short concise statement also shows that the president means business and that he is willing to do anything in his power to help the German people should Gorbachev accept his offer. He goes on to state that the United States is striving for peace and although it can not permit the spreading of communism, it does seek for all the people to see an increase in the standard of living and assure both sides security by demilitarizing and disarming both sides wherever
He emphasizes the horror when he states, “I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.” He tries to gain the confidence of the the American people by stating that other countries have been attacked, as well. He uses parallel structure and repetition to indicate that places other than the US were attacked. He repeats this framework to emphasize that many other places were attacked. He does this so that his audience can understand the greater impact of the event. FDR then concludes this section of his speech by stressing the fact that he knows what the Americans are feeling and the opinions that have been formed. Roosevelt implies that he knows their lives will change and that the people are concerned for their safety. He does this to make the listeners understand that they are not alone in their reaction to this attack and that everybody in America feels this
...ent would have presented an ineffective speech. This was not an easy task for me, because I am not a Reagan admirer; however I shed my listener bias to finally appreciate the Great Communicator in his element.
Another way Reagan uses emotional appeals in his speech at the Brandenburg Gate is through the reoccurring theme of good versus evil. The basic idea behind this theme is that America and other Western nations are good and right, while the Soviet Union is evil and wrong. However, unlike his speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983, President Reagan does not come out and blatantly say that the Soviet Union is an “evil empire”. Instead, he gives examples that serve to prove his point without explicitly making any risky statements. To expand on this idea, President Reagan explains how America is good by showing the good things that the American government has done for Europe. This is seen clearly through the example of Reagan talking about the Marshal Plan. Reagan starts by
The changes to the world brought about by the policies of former Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev were nothing short of revolutionary. The end of the Cold War (1947-1991) began by the extrication of the Soviet Bloc in June of 1989 in Poland. Their citizens elected a noncommunist government to legislature thereby standing in opposition of communism (The Reagan Years, 2014). The world sat holding its breath waiting for retaliation from Gorbachev – retaliation that was never implemented. This very act in Poland, created a domino effect, with communism falling in Eastern Europe one country at a time, putting an end to the ruling dictatorships. The Berlin Wall that was erected in 1961, and separated East and West Germany, was torn down by November 9, 1989. The neoclassical Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopened to the public in December of the same year; and on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunited. In December of 1991, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia declared their independence. The Soviet Union was abolished and the 44-year Cold War had finally come to an end. Each of the international relations (IR) perspectives holds its own theories of this major event, and utilizes specific relationships to analyze the phenomena.