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AN ANALYSIS OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S PUBLIC IMAGERY OF THE SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNIST CHINA AS PRESENTED IN SELECTED SPEECHES AND NEWS CONFERENCES : = 1953-1961.

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Title/Author:	AN ANALYSIS OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S PUBLIC IMAGERY OF THE SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNIST CHINA AS PRESENTED IN SELECTED SPEECHES AND NEWS CONFERENCES :/
Reminder of title:	1953-1961.
Author:	BULSYS, JOSEPH ALGIRDAS.
Description:	1 online resource (323 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 8390.
Subject:	Communication. -
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AN ANALYSIS OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S PUBLIC IMAGERY OF THE SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNIST CHINA AS PRESENTED IN SELECTED SPEECHES AND NEWS CONFERENCES : = 1953-1961.
BULSYS, JOSEPH ALGIRDAS.

AN ANALYSIS OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S PUBLIC IMAGERY OF THE SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNIST CHINA AS PRESENTED IN SELECTED SPEECHES AND NEWS CONFERENCES :1953-1961. - 1 online resource (323 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 8390.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references

The purpose of this study was to investigate Eisenhower's role as a rhetorician when speaking about cold war affairs. The specific research question posed was: What was Eisenhower's public stance toward the Soviet Union and Communist China? Other questions the study attempted to answer were: (1) Did Eisenhower possess a singular vision of these two nations?, (2) What, if any, persistent rhetorical images were projected in his public address?, and, (3) Did his statements about Russia and Red China noticeably change over time?

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2018

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520 $a In order to conduct the investigation several critical questions were applied to a body of Eisenhower's discourse consisting of ninety-five speeches and ninety-seven press conferences from the years 1953-1961. Once ideas and themes were distinguished, the value positions which supported verbal content were identified as idealistic, pragmatic, or casuistic. Finally, Kenneth Burke's theory of identification, more specifically his concept of cluster-agon analysis, was used to uncover "key terms.".
520 $a The results of this study indicate that Dwight Eisenhower's view of cold war affairs was uncomplicated and very much in line with the common thinking of the 1950's. He perceived a world caught in an ideological struggle between the evil forces of communism and free world allies. By and large the President was pragmatic when he spoke about the Soviet Union and Communist China, but he was also driven by idealism because his most enduring image was the utopian desire to bring peace in freedom to a troubled world. From the standpoint of value orientations, Eisenhower's discourse was varied and complex since he justified his views on pragmatic, idealistic, and casuistic grounds. Furthermore, the President's imagery was remarkably consistent over a period of eight years. This demonstrates that his view of Russia and Red China was firmly established in his mind and independent of Dulles' influence, even though the two men perceived the cold war in much the same way. Because Eisenhower's imagery was his own, utterances about Russia and Red China did not change in any significant manner after the Secretary's death in 1959.
520 $a Overall the study illustrated that Eisenhower possessed a well-formed vision of cold war affairs which was clearly communicated to his listeners. While his imagery was commonplace and thus, perhaps, not particularly memorable, it was coherent, consistent, and sometimes surprisingly idealistic. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
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