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How Does John F Kennedy Use Rhetoric In Jfk Inaugural Address

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America Has came across many great symbolic leaders in the past that has made critical impact to the nation. U.S. Presidents use rhetoric in their every day live to effectively convey their thoughts and ideas to the public and congress. When America was in need of a leader at a critical moment of American History, America Elected John F. Kennedy as the thirty fifth president of the United States who was the youngest president to be elected into office. America was looking for a leader that can lead them through the communism around the nation that was spreading and other countries that could have started a nuclear war around the world were creating nuclear bombs. John F. Kennedy was the turning point America needed at the time, but he needed …show more content…

Kennedy was one the best President to step fourth into office. He had the ability to change a nation with his trustworthiness. It’s a character that most presidents need in order for them to be successful in the office, in the past years theirs only been a handful of presidents that were capable of being worthy enough to run our nation. Indeed of the best to ever do it was John F. Kennedy, he built his trust when he was elected to office and giving such a powerful Inaugural address. John F. Kennedys Inaugural address delivered such an emotional speech, as Kennedy stated in the beginning of his speech, "he has sworn before and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago." He wants his audience to know that he has the same mentality as the past presidents, and plans to hold the same American values upon which the nation was founded. Kennedy also used another form of pathos, an appeal to emotions, to keep his audience intrigued. “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this country, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which the nation has always been committed…” He wants our nations to know that America

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