Compare And Contrast Roosevelt And Ronald Reagan

America has not had an easy history. Short compared to other countries and nations, but definitely not easy. So in these times of great strife and great anger and great need, there needs to be great leaders who can inspire the very People to climb out of the deep pits that they have sunk so far down into, to stand for something bigger than themselves, standing as one when the world wants them to stand apart. Two of these great, awe-inspiring leaders was Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, arguably two of the greatest Presidents this nation has ever experienced. Roosevelt and Reagan both were leaders in a time of great, great sorrow, great pride, amazing victories and devastating losses, and to get through such times, all they needed

So loved by the American People that he served four terms, the longest serving President in history. So to be such a great man, and great leader, he obviously had to have some amazing speeches, and one will be focused on. His speech right after Pearl Harbor. His speech had two main goals, to convince Congress to formally declare war on Japan which they ended up doing moments later, and to rally the People to support the war effort. The speech was extremely emotional. It's hard to find a moment in the speech where it isn't emotional, and rightly so because the People were shocked and disheartened. They just suffered a heavy surprise blow against whom they thought were their own allies. The word Roosevelt used, “infamy”, pretty much foreshadowed his entire speech right then and there. Many phrases and words that he used characterized the Japanese actions as two-faced and dishonorable. Because of this, and the fact that the People were already furious with the Empire of Japan, Roosevelt achieved both of his goals in a matter of minutes, becoming one of the most effective speeches in

Yes, he made mistakes, but his victories severely out balanced those mistakes. He became one of the arguably best US Presidents in history, and one does not get that title easily. He believed in many things. He had his faith, he had Peace through Strength, and most of all, he was extremely persuasive. One of his speeches, “A Time for Change”, also called “The Speech”, was from before he became President and was during the election year. This speech had a very serious tone, and was as emotional as it was logical. In the emotional aspect, he alluded to several different situations that made the People think, as the end goal of this speech was to get the People to vote for him in the election, and so the allusions he made causes People to see him in a much more different light, a serious light rather than the more humorous one he had as an actor. In a logical sense, he gave many statistics and how he can change things from one to another, and through his use of emotion and logic, his speech ended up being structured in a phenomenal way and the influence he had with this speech extended to every corner of America. Every American hearing the words he used was affected to a huge extent that it wasn't even funny. He showed respect for the old ways, for how things used to be taken care of, but he explained to the People that those ways simply won't work anymore, and new ways needed to be used, and that he is that new way,