Rhetorical Analysis Of The Vietnam War

Frustration is a normal aspect of any conflicts in the political problems worldwide. During with the Vietnam War, President Nixon had to be careful because the American public was becoming more cynical based on involvement with Vietnam. President Nixon had the ability to understand the language along with content to reach his target audience with his address to the nation on the war in Vietnam on November 3rd, 1969. His viewers for his speech were his fellow Americans because they had lost hope based on past results of too many deaths of Americans in this war. His goal was to answer questions about why the wars were still taking place, and how he proposed to create peace to end the war. The United States could create propaganda and mislead the general

public since they applied a basis about military information. President Nixon had to restore the trust of the entire nation in the United States of America because of unresolved conflict that caused division within the USA. The mission was to find the best way to end this war and prevent future problems of war, based on a change in military plans with a flexible timetable in regards to the Paris talks. A mood is an essential tool for any type of politics to create a controlled atmosphere within the nation that they govern. New ideas to create peace in Vietnam, were the best plans to change the public feelings on what was really taking place over there at this time. The timeline created an opportunity to bring their boys home and plan an election to fix the problem in Vietnam. The end goal was to be realistic about ending this, along with different thinking being applied to the topic. Each nation has a very different perspective based on individual beliefs on one’s cultural values on images. During his speech, he had no images or symbolism about the Vietnam War on November 3rd, 1969. Leaders worldwide have the intellectual insight to send subliminal messages that aid in any type of propaganda that takes place. The direction that was planned for this address was meant to be a very obvious message to the people that he governed over at the time. Strong viewpoints that the states felt that they knew better, over any other country around. He saw the ability to have control based on the level of being impatient based on their reputation worldwide, and how they preferred to do the job themselves. Deep down decide to only help when requested, or when it was vital to security and make this war less Americanized. Along with the main message of having fewer attacks, deaths, and no division to meet his reasonability’s. Every person who listens to music on the radio or a speech is being impacted to sway their own options based on emotions of propaganda techniques.

President Nixon attempts to persuade the public of his nation by the methods of bandwagon, oversimplification, scapegoating, virtue words and euphoria in propaganda techniques. Specifically, Nixon takes on the bandwagon method because he is appealing to keep the concept alive and stop the division of the country and keep the idea alive of creating peace to end this war. Although he was a strong believer in the ability to turn to oversimplification, because of the military and political setting during this time based on setting up a timetable for peace. Meanwhile, he still blamed passed past presidents before him to justify the length of this war and how he planned to make changes because of scapegoating. To illustrate his ideal method of virtue words, he overstressed the word of making peace to end the war. Overall the end result of Nixon’s address was not effective, because of the leak of the Pentagon papers in 1971 when 20 newspapers printed articles about the lies of Vietnam. Based on this leak by Daniel Ellsberg who was a former military report for the Vietnam

War. He first let The New York Times know and then The Washington Post reported the government secrets. “On Friday, June 25th 1971, the supreme court agreed to hear the case. It was argued the next day and, on June 30, less than three weeks after The Times published its first story on the Pentagon Papers, the court ruled in favor of The Times and The Post, allowing them to continue publishing the material. “In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would,” Hugo L. Black, one of the justices, wrote in an opinion supporting the publications. The ruling was a landmark decision for press freedom.” (Chokshi, 2017), Throughout history, all of the American presidents have dealt with systematic problems, that have involved some form of political conflict.