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June 28, 2005
Echoes of LBJ
Political pundit Walter Shapiro, in an analysis of President Bush's June 28, 2005 address at Fort Bragg, North Carolina ,for The Huffington Post, recalled that: With Americans in turmoil over the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson framed his 1968 State of the Union Address around this rhetorical question, "Why, then, this restlessness?" Three months later, that same restlessness forced LBJ to abandon his dreams of another term in the White House.
There is no better gauge to the political realities behind a war-time >address than the rhetorical questions the president feels compelled to pose. When the Commander in Chief has to ask, "Is the sacrifice worth it?" you can intuit that the war has not been a glorious success. There was also the moment when George W. Bush admitted that some (excessively gung-ho) Americans inquire, "Why don't you send more troops?" Mr. Shapiro said, "Just hearing the president advance that question was another clue that the war was not going exactly as planned."
There's that reference to Vietnam. See "Rhetorical Verdict: A C-Minus Speech" for more of Mr. Shapiro's analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 28, 2005 09:35 PM
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