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In:Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
[Argumentation in Context 17] 2019
► pp. 85–102

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Chapter 5
Re-visiting Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech

Why argumentation critics need an audience-centered principle of rhetorical charity

 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Published online: 23 September 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background of the speech
  • 3.The speech achieved overwhelming success
  • 4.The speech overcame impossible difficulties
  • 5.But was the speech reasonable?
  • 6.Checkers reconsidered
  • 7.Conclusion
  • References
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