Nixon Speech Rhetorical Analysis

To start the speech the announcer says “he (Nixon) interrupts his run on the campaign trail to deliver this message.” This is trying to grab a hold of the audience’s attention that this is going to be an important message. This speech contains a massive amount of ethos because the focus of the majority of speech is to clear up his name from the recent allegations against him. After he clears up his name about the $18,000 donation that he is accused of taking in for personal use, he then shifts the focus of the speech to one more centered on the upcoming election rather than him.
Ethos
To begin Nixon’s address he comes out and says that if he would’ve taken any of that money to give himself personally a financial advantage it would’ve been

He then talked about how the RNC (Republican National Committee) is going to figure out whether or not they want him on the ticket anymore and he said he will abide by it either way it goes. After establishing his credibility once again throughout the whole video, he then asks the viewers who about thirty minutes ago were questioning his honesty, to wire in their opinion to the RNC. He knew that he reestablished himself and changed the people’s minds so that they too would want to help him stay on the ticket and send in saying that they want him to stay on the ticket that year with Eisenhower
Pathos
Now to conclude the speech with the best overall opinion of him so far through the speech, he gives his running-mate General Eisenhower much praise. When all the viewer’s emotions were at the highest point and everyone was listening to what he was saying, he let everyone know who they should vote for in the election. “A vote for Eisenhower is a vote for what is good for America.” He is saying if you want to help better America then to vote for Dwight Eisenhower for