Rhetorical Analysis Of Johnson's Response To The Voting Crisis

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Pauley claims that Lyndon Johnson’s response to the voting crisis was unusual, where Pauley break up his argument in four parts. Pauley explain that Johnsons existing body of scholarship needs modification, that Johnson carefully planned voting rights strategy directing his rhetorical appeals by mimicking kairos’s timely response to a certain situation. Additionally, Johnson’s response was complicated, because it reshaped time itself and finally, Johnsons message was timely, timeless, and out of time regarding the rising militancy of the civil rights movement.

Pauley’s claims of Johnson, demonstrate the evolutional concepts of effects through immediate responses. Pauley suggests that Johnson’s rhetoric; “we shall overcome” was strategically

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