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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Gina Menchetti JFK speeches

Kennedy, as a speaker, is actually quite eloquent. Although, as much as he uses very pleasing vocabulary words, at times he sounds very tired, and loses my interest (but his accent is fabulous). To me Kennedy's most persuading moment is when he is trying to get America to turn a new page, while he is reassuring that not one state is guilty for the acts of racial discrimination, he wants everybody to try to so hard to work at being a civil nation. I also found the actual telephone calls very interesting, because after listing to his polished speech it was nice to hear the president just talk with-out worrying what was coming out of his mouth. I also found it interesting that Kennedy still didn't know what was going on with the control of the mobs and such yet, and that he was questioning the progress of the governor. I feel like Kennedy was truly trying to be a Diplomat with this matter; while it was difficult for him to give himself 100% to the matter with student, he really did want to be able to push it through, but he did have other matters on his mind.

1 comment:

Mcapush said...

I agree one thing that I think made kennedy stand out among the rest was his excellent public speaking. (and his great hair). He was a very strong advocator of civil rights, which help lead to healing of some of the racial tension at the time.
Thomas Doredant