RONALD REAGAN, “REMARKS AT A CEREMONY COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NORMANDY INVASION, D-DAY,” POINTE DU HOC, FRANCE (6 JUNE 1984)

and

RONALD REAGAN, “REMARKS AT A UNITED STATES-FRANCE CEREMONY COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NORMANDY INVASION, D-DAY,” OMAHA BEACH, COLLEVILLE SUR MER, FRANCE (6 JUNE 1984)

Readings

Brands, H.W. Reagan: The Life. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2015.

Brinkley, Douglas. The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion. New York, HarperCollins: 2005.

Brinkley, Douglas, and Ronald J. Drez. Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944. New York, NY: Bulfinch Press, 2004.

Fessler, Paul. “Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (‘Evil Empire Speech’) (8 March 1983).” Voices of Democracy 2 (2007): 26-49.

Fisher, Walter R. “Romantic Democracy, Ronald Reagan, and Presidential Heroes.” Western Journal of Speech Communication 46, no. 3 (1982): 299-310.

Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2005.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Jones, John M., and Robert C. Rowland. “Reagan at Moscow State University: Consubstantiality Underlying Conflict.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10, no. 1 (2007): 77-106.

Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th-August 25th, 1944. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1982.

Medhurst, Martin J. “Writing Speeches for Ronald Reagan: An Interview with Tony Dolan.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1, no. 2 (1998): 245-56.

Morris, Edmund. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. New York, NY: Random House, 1999.

Noonan, Peggy. What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era. New York: Random House, 1990.

Prasch, Allison M. “Reagan at Pointe Du Hoc: Deictic Epideictic and the Persuasive Power of ‘Bringing before the Eyes.'” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 18, no. 2 (2015): 247-76.

Reagan, Ronald. An American Life. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Rowland, Robert C., and John M. Jones. “Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate: Moral Clarity Tempered by Pragmatism.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9, no. 1 (2006): 21-50.

Rowland, Robert C., and John M. Jones. Reagan at Westminster: Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2010.

Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

Stuckey, Mary E. Getting into the Game: The Pre-Presidential Rhetoric of Ronald Reagan. New York, NY: Praeger, 1989.

Stuckey, Mary E. Playing the Game: The Presidential Rhetoric of Ronald Reagan. New York, NY: Praeger, 1990.

Audio-Visual Materials

Bosch, Adriana, Austin Hoyt, David Ogden Stiers, and David G. McCullough. Reagan. Alexandria, VA: PBS Home Video, 2008. Video Recording.

Brinkley, Douglas, and Ronald J. Drez. Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944. New York, NY: Bulfinch Press, 2004. Two audio CDs come with the book and contain audio recordings of D-Day veterans recounting their personal experiences on June 6, 1984.

Burns, Ken, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein, Geoffrey C. Ward, Keith David, Tom Hanks, Josh Lucas, et al. The War. Alexandria, VA: PBS Home Video, 2007. Video Recording.

Capra, Frank, and Anatole Litvak. D-Day: The Normandy Invasion. London: Castle Home Video, 2007. Video Recording.

Ginsburg, Matthew, and Robert Palumbo. Reagan. A&E Television Networks, 2011. Video Recording.

Ronald Reagan: An American President. Beverly Hills, CA: 20th Century Fox, 2005. Video Recording.

Online Resources

“August 23, 1984, Republican National Convention, Day 4.” C-SPAN. http://www.c-span.org/video/?124909-1/republican-national-convention-day-4.

Bush, George W. “Remarks on the 60th Anniversary of D-Day in Colleville-sur-Mer, France,” June 6, 2004. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=72648.

Clinton, William J. “Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France,” June 6, 1994. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Wooley, The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50297.

Reagan, Ronald. “Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-day, June 6, 1984.” The Public Papers of President Ronald W. Reagan. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/60684a.htm.

Reagan, Ronald. “President Reagan’s Address at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-day at Point-du-Hoc – 6/6/84.” Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I

“Pointe du Hoc Documents.” The Great Communicator Files, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.reaganlibrary.gov/curriculum/curiculum.

Reagan, Ronald. “Remarks at a United States-France Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-day, June 6, 1984.” The Public Papers of President Ronald W. Reagan. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/60684b.htm.

Reagan, Ronald. “Remarks at a United States-France Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion/D-day – June 6, 1984.” Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Leb7ynduCU.

“Omaha Beach Documents.” The Great Communicator Files, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.reaganlibrary.gov/curriculum/curiculum.

Obama, Barack. “Remarks on the 65th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France,” June 6, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=86253.

Obama, Barack. “Remarks on the 70th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France,” June 6, 2014. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=105250.