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5 pages in length. One of Ronald Reagan's many legacies is his ability to deliver a speech that inspires, educates and makes listeners feel as though he is talking directly to each one individually. His rapport with his constituency and the global community was comparable only to President Kennedy, and his smooth delivery is attributable to his first career as movie actor. Indeed, being president was but another role for Reagan to play, one in which he used oratory as a most effective means of persuasion. Examining two of his speeches - the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) and the Berlin Wall (Tear Down this Wall!) - provides a good opportunity to evaluate the master and his craft that served to guide America for so many years. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with his constituency and the global community was comparable only to President Kennedy, and his smooth delivery is attributable to his first career as movie actor. Indeed, being president
was but another role for Reagan to play, one in which he used oratory as a most effective means of persuasion. Examining two of his speeches - the Strategic
Defense Initiative and the Berlin Wall - provides a good opportunity to evaluate the master and his craft that served to guide America for
so many years. II. STAR WARS Reagan publicized his Strategic Defense Initiative - or Star Wars - with a speech that, while stellar in its presentation, set off a
spark of misinterpretation that forced Americas leader to rally under pressure - and recover he did. This watershed speech was given March of 1983 as a message to Gorbachev
and his Soviet dissidents that they were being strongly encouraged to downsize their nuclear weaponry the same as the United States had planned to do, serving as an opportunity for
each nation to jointly downgrade the global threat of World War III. The tone of Reagans delivery - one of a stern and serious nature - was interpreted as
threatening to the Soviets ears and caused an unexpected attitude backlash for Reagans proposition of mutual reduction. In short, Reagan sought to "reduce the threat of war, to convince
the Soviet leaders that cooperation could serve the Soviet peoples better than confrontation and to encourage openness and democracy in the Soviet Union" (Talbott). The vision Reagan put forth in
the Star Wars speech held all the deference and appeal for which the presidents oratories were known, which is why it was difficult to understand how the Soviets perceived it
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