Walter Cronkite

Johnson in the Oval Office Lyndon Johnson took the oath as vice president on January 20, 1961 (Bornet, P. 1). In office, he served as a subordinate to President Kennedy. Johnson served as liaison with America’s space effort and also served as chairman of the President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity (Bornet, P. 1). He also made short visits for President Kennedy to thirty-three countries to give speeches on behalf of the president (Bornet, P. 1). However, the key powers reside with President…

The Vietnam War is known to be the only war the United States ever lost. It was extremely unpopular and had approval ratings of below 20% (McConnell 183). It left us with a war memorial containing the names of 58,209 dead soldiers, all inscribed on black granite (Isaacs 1). Although the military action of the Vietnam War took place thousands of miles from our shores, the war’s effects were strongly felt in the United States of America. Vietnam was originally a French colony, and it gained…

A Personal Code of Ethics “The Medium is the Message” Marshall McLuhan, professor, philosopher, and the grandfather of media theory, once uttered the now famous phrase, “The medium is the message.” This of course is in reference to how the medium in which a creator disperses content is considered just as important as the created content itself. During the first televised debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the public’s reaction alternated wildly depending on whether they watched…

getting involved with Vietnam as a bad idea as the media reports on what happens and saying the showing and writing about what was going on in Vietnam. For the fact that the government called the Tet offensive a victory when a reporter by the name Walter Cronkite of the war…

Abstract Since the death of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in the recent American history several events have now had traumatic impacts on the people of America. His assassination has fixed itself in the national consciousness forever. JFKs death was very much unexpected and very shocking. Subsequent investigations for the assassination and controversies resulted after these investigations. Warren commission which was the president’s commission to investigate the assassination of…

Twenty five centuries ago, Greek philosopher Socrates claimed that to be wise is to be “ignorant… not [believing] that [one knows] anything” after having failed to prove that statement wrong (Plato). While ostensibly an empty paradox, these words have much to say about the state of mankind; in a society and a race in which narcissism and arrogance abound, there are none wiser than he who claims to not be, for he remains humble and open to new facts and opinions, instead of being blinded by his…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…