Campaign Speeches on VOD

With the campaign between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney concluded, the campaign speechmaking ends as well. Campaign speechmaking as a separate or unique type of rhetoric is analyzed by some VOD contributors. Check out these units on specific campaign oratory:

• William Jennings Bryan on “Imperialism” in 1900
• George H.W. Bush speaking at Penn State University in 1992
• Cesar Chavez nominating Jerry Brown at the 1976 Democratic convention
• Vice President Dan Quayle’s speech about family values in 1992
• Theodore Roosevelt on behalf of William McKinley in 1900
• Adlai Stevenson’s “New America” speech to the DNC in 1956