Ronald Reagan's Eulogy For Late United States President Margaret Thatcher

In her eulogy for late United States President Ronald Reagan, former Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher praises and argues that Ronald Reagan was a distinguished man who was a vital figure in leading America through a difficult time - the Cold War. She adopts a doleful but hopeful tone in addressing Reagan’s accomplishments, such as ending the Cold War and bringing the economy back to life in order to unite Great Britain and the United States. In constructing her argument, Thatcher sets out to convince her audience through the use of juxtaposition, logical reasoning, and appeal to pathos. Thatcher juxtaposes the negative aspects that Americans saw with the positive results that Reagan achieved through the lines “Others prophesied the decline...He inspired America and its allies…” and “Others hoped, at best, for an easy cohabitation...He won the Cold War…” The juxtaposition that Thatcher organizes effectively dissolves the negative thinking posed by Reagan’s political adversaries by showing the audience that Reagan’s accomplishments were far more impactful. She employs repetition in these lines to emphasize that while others had doubts, Reagan

She announces that he inspired America, that he introduced new opportunities, that he turned America’s enemies into allies. By inducing her audience, Thatcher illuminate the efforts Reagan took to make the United States a better place. Presented in the order of increasing significance, the three ideas that Thatcher specifies creates the effect of showing that Reagan was more than capable of making a positive change. These feats were only a small fraction of what Reagan actually accomplished. By doing this, she advances her argument that Reagan was crucial to the development of the United States. Through reviving its economy, he also revived faith into its citizens, thereby instituting a new