Margaret Thatcher's Eulogy: President Ronald Reagan

During the summer of 2004, Margaret Thatcher (former prime minister of Great Britain) delivered a eulogy to the American people. This eulogy honored the former United States president Ronald Reagan, whom she had worked closely. The United States had lost a great president who was a great man and dear friend to many. Thatcher needed to choose her words to respect what America saw in President Reagan and to bring needed memories back into the minds of the American people listening. In her eulogy, Thatcher uses appeals to ethos, appeals to pathos, and emotional diction to convey her respectful message.

Thatcher uses ethos often to emphasize how he kept everyone in the American spirit in the ways of how "[h]is policies had a freshness and optimism that won converts …show more content…
Ronald was always in a happy mood that made others around him invigorated. He masked these daunting tasks that he had to complete in order to help others see that he was healing America's falling spirit and gaining the strength of the free world yet again. After his life was on the verge of being gone, Ronald Reagan told a priest, "Whatever time I've got left now belongs to the big fella upstairs." Ronnie was putting forth that the rest of his life that he had was to be in the name of God or as he put it, "the big fella upstairs." This is emphasizing that he gave himself tough-to-complete tasks which gave himself even more perseverance. Thatcher uses this to point out how Reagan's vocabulary helped him gain the hearts of his