Watergate
Rhetoric
Effect
History
100
location of the Watergate building
What is Washington D.C.?
100
slow, serious, optimistic
What is tone?
100
angered citizens more
What is the pardon of Richard Nixon?
100
only President to ever resign
Who is Nixon?
200
Burglary of Democratic National Convention
What is Watergate?
200
"I have promised to uphold the Constitution"
What is pathos?
200
lost re-election
Who is Gerald Ford?
200
one of the reasons that American's did not like the government
What is the Vietnam War?
300
paying burglars, preventing FBI from investigating
What is Nixon's coverup?
300
"as soon as I was certain in my own mind and in my own conscience that it is the right thing to do."
What is Ethos?
300
making the citizens cynical
What is Watergate/ Nixon?
300
forcing Nixon out of office
What is the Senate's impeachment?
400
pleaded guilty to Watergate charges
What are Nixon's aides?
400
"The facts, as I see them, are that a former President of the United States, instead of enjoying equal treatment with any other citizen accused of violating the law..."
What are logos?
400
preventing Nixon from going on trial
What is Ford's pardon?
400
connected to Nixon's re-election campaign
Who are the Watergate burglars?
500
Supreme court ordering Nixon's taped oval office conversations
What is Saturday Night Massacre?
500
"I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy."
What is anaphora?
500
to unite the nation
What was Ford's intended effect of the pardon?
500
wrote books, did TV interviews on Watergate
Who is Nixon?
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