Analysis Of Henry Kissinger's Tribute For Former President Richard M. Nixon

Henry Kissinger's "Tribute for former president Richard M. Nixon," Published by Vital speeches of the Day in 1994 talks about how good of a man/president Richard Nixon with his struggles and how he overcame these during his presidency. Henry Kissinger was very close to Richard Nixon, he was the secretary of state during Nixons' presidency. He was closer to the president than anyone else in the White House, he was his right-hand man. This tribute was given at Nixon's funeral, and Kissinger had a lot of good things to say about Nixon. His foreign policies, ending of a war, and overall love for him by the people before Watergate. This was written after Kissinger gave this speech at Nixon's funeral. Kissinger word choice made people mourn over

this death and reflect over his many accomplishments. When Kissinger wrote this, he was using pathos throughout to mourn over Nixon's death and while he did makes some mistakes, he still was a great president. While during the speech the audience was the on present, the audience after it was published, greatly differed. Compared to the attendees, the article was written towards people to grief over his death and for other to realize that, even if you make some mistakes you can still become great. This article was not written our published by Kissinger, but this originally was a speech given by Kissinger at Nixon's funeral. This is credible to say the least, it was taken straight from the source. Although it is majorly one-sided towards praising Nixon this is necessary to give the article some emotional touches. In my opinion, this article is very much so different from the rest of the articles I chose. Since this was the only one to use pathos and also due to the fact that this article has little to no filling in between the statements