The Trouble With Presidents

It is one of the oddest facts in American history that the two most important American political speeches in the twentieth century were delivered about 70 hours apart. The most prophetic Presidential speech in American history ever delivered by a sitting President was made by a man who possessed, at least until the arrival of George W. Bush, the reputation for being the least competent verbal communicator in modern Presidential history. The other speech laid the rhetorical foundations for a f