Oratorical Encounters

HALFORD ROSS RYAN is Professor of Public Speaking at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Foreword by Edward P. J. Corbett Preface Introduction Oratorical Encounters Apology as Attack: Senators La Follette vs. Robinson on Freedom of Speech by Carl R. Burgchardt The Scopes Trial: "Darrow vs. Bryan" vs. "Bryan vs. Darrow" by Thomas M. Lessl Accusations and Apologies from a General, a Senator, and a Priest by Susan Schultz Huxman and Wil A. Linkugel Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin vs. King Edward VIII by Halford Ross Ryan President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the "Purge" by G. Jack Gravlee President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur: A Study of Rhetorical Confrontation by Bernard K. Duffy Senator Richard M. Nixon's Apology for the "The Fund" by Halford Ross Ryan In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Rachel L. Holloway Nikita S. Krushchev vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower by Lawrence W. Haapanen Senator John F. Kennedy Encounters the Religious Question: "I Am Not the Catholic Candidate for President" by David Henry Eight Alabama Clergy vs. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Ronald K. Burke Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick Tragedy by William L. Benoit President Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate Scandal by Craig Allen Smith Gerald R. Ford Encounters Richard Nixon's Legacy: On Amnesty and the Pardon by Bernard L. Brock CBS vs. Mobil Oil: Charges of Creative Bookeeping in 1979 by George N. Dionisopoulos and Steven L. Vibbert The Media and the Catholic Church vs. Geraldine Ferraro by Richard J. Jensen Elie Wiesel vs. President Ronald Reagan: The Visit to Bitburg by Robert V. Friedenberg President Ronald Reagan's Apologia on the Iran-Contra Affair by D. Ray. Heisey Glossary of Rhetorical Terms Speaker and Speech Index Subject Index