President Donald Trump gave his first speech to the 535 odd members of the Joint Session of the United States Congress some days ago where he received enthusiastic applause and cheers from most of the attending 290 Republicans. The Democrats sat in silence. In tone it was presidential; the first presidential type speech by Mr. […]
The Post-Truth Age: A New Myth
Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic Party’s candidate in the 1952 presidential election, humorously said in a campaign speech: “I offered my opponents (the Republicans) a deal: if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them.” Political lying was well and hardy in 1952, as it had been over 400 years previously […]
Good Bye Mr. Obama!
Before Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, the most popular speech by far in the United States was George Washington’s presidential farewell speech of 1796. But in November 1863 Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address surpassed Washington’s speech in terms of popularity to become America’s most quoted and loved speech. Later on we had both John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural speech […]
