I want to thank the contributors to this book. Without their careful scholarship and tight writing, which I trust fulfills Aristotle's dictum that style must be clear and appropriate to be good, the volume would not exist.
I also want to thank Mildred Vasan of Greenwood Publishing Group, for she initiated this project and shepherded it to completion. In fact, students and scholars of the history and criticism of American public address, which includes presidential rhetoric, owe a particular gratitude to Greenwood's commitment to the discipline of speech. Greenwood is sensitive to the democratic needs of an informed citizenry to scrutinize, with the help of rhetorical criticisms in book- length forms, the persuasions of their public figures and presidents.
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