Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech

AP Language. Wed, Sep 4th, 2013 at 12:05 pm

Themes: Ethos, Nixon, Speech, Video

We’ve moved from David Foster Wallace’s great commencement address to a source a bit older: Richard Nixon’s televised plea for his credibility in 1952. The goal in reading this one is to better understand the use of ethos in an argument.

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