Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life

Clarke, Jeanne; Clements, Kendrick A.

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“…It's fair to say these considerations of Pierce's, Hoover's, and Carter's legacies are limited. Take Hoover, for instance; Clements (2000), Whyte (2017), and Chavez (2021) note Hoover's successes in infrastructure and disaster relief, the development of the Office of Education and National Institute of Health, his efforts to improve opportunities for Native Americans, and the impact of Hoover's Good Neighbor policy on Latin America as evidence of his importance. As such, Laing and McCaffrie (2017) make a strong argument that revising the methodology for reviewing problematic presidential legacies puts at least two of these subjects in a much more positive light.…”

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The biggest losers: Legacy, exigence, and apologia in presidential farewell addresses

Milford

2023

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Campbell and Jamieson and Medhurst's foundational works on presidential farewell addresses assert that the form creates a sense of continuity, progressive perfection, and pedagogical affirmation and adapts to personal and situational exigencies to define a personal and administrative legacy for the outgoing president, as evidenced by the oft‐celebrated addresses of Washington and Eisenhower. However, at times these constraints are difficult to manage, particularly in the case of incumbents who were soundly denied a second term because of questionable administrative choices. In such cases, rhetors often turn to generic hybrids, combining forms and functions of different addresses to attend to complicated exigencies and audiences. The cases considered here infused the farewell's form with apologia, a speech of self‐defense, resulting in an inward‐focused address that failed to resolve important legacies. Examining the farewell addresses of three of the biggest electoral losers in history provides insight into the impacts these choices have on presidential legacy.

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The biggest losers: Legacy, exigence, and apologia in presidential farewell addresses

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2023

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Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life

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