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" The metonym of mystery: Representations of clandestine service in American presidential rhetoric "
David James Berver
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803557
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TL48350
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1708973107; 1595328
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Lyons, Sarah Louise
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The metonym of mystery: Representations of clandestine service in American presidential rhetoric\ David James BerverORNATOWSKI, CEZAR
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San Diego State University
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2015
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M.A.
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Rhetoric and Writing
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2015
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111
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-94144-9
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The Edward Snowden leaks caused President Barack Obama to defend intelligence organizations, but this was not the first time a President spoke in defense of clandestine organizations. With a viewpoint based in Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and classical rhetoric, this thesis evaluates what these speeches say about the relationship between the American people and their government. The focus is on a historical trajectory of how the metonym of government is constructed, starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Statement by the President regarding U-2 incident” in 1960, continuing with John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s “The President and the Press” in 1961, then moving on to Ronald Reagan’s “Address to the Nation on Iran-Contra” in 1987, before ending with Barack Obama’s “Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence” in 2014. This thesis theorizes that due to the increasing amount of information inequality experienced by citizens, Presidential speeches about state secrecy have shifted from Burkean pragmatism to Burkean idealism, and as a result has shifted from an Aristotelean conception of rhetoric to a Platonic conception of rhetoric. This thesis finds that national security, once represented as a concern for everyone, has become represented as a concern for only a small section of the American populace. Specifically, state secrecy functions to make it so that only a select subset of the American people can legitimately interact with national security.
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Rhetoric
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Language, literature and linguistics
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ORNATOWSKI, CEZAR
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Rhetoric and WritingSan Diego State University
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