Mr. Kennedy Speech Analysis

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To start off, Mr. Kennedy can look well on television. When delivering a major speech for one of the Great Debates the reporter recalled, “... Kennedy, by contrast, had spent early September campaigning in California. He was tan and confident and well rested.” Due to the fact that Nixon had just previously injured his knee badly, he did not look very well when they went on television; so, the public paid more attention to Senator Kennedy, who was looking better than ever. From another part of the report it says, “Those television viewers focused on what they saw, not what they heard”. The audience was so impressed by the way Mr. Kennedy looked that they payed more attention to him. Another reason why the way he dresses impacts opinions is when

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