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Rhetoric and Public Affairs
Volume 9(4), 2006

 
CONTENTS
 
Kimble, James J., and Olson, Lester C. Visual rhetoric representing Rosie the Riveter: Myth and misconception in J. Howard Miller's "We Can Do It!" poster. 533-570
 
  This essay examines the World War II poster "We Can Do It!," commonly known as "Rosie the Riveter." Today, J Howard Miller's print is a feminist icon 
 
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history
gender
metaphor
World War II
critical theory
 
 
Reyes, G. Mitchell The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the politics of realism, and the manipulation of Vietnam remembrance in the 2004 presidential election. 571-600
 
  The group calling themselves The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth first organized in April 2004 in order to plot a strategy to undermine John Kerry's bid for president 
 
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debate
political elections
politics and government
advertising
memory
public opinion
theory
persuasion
 
 
Goodnight, G. Thomas, and Olson, Kathryn M. Shared power, foreign policy, and Haiti, 1994: Public memories of war and race. 601-634
 
  Rhetorical analyses of foreign policy tend to focus on the president as chief executive and commander in chief 
 
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politics and government
memory
debate
presidential figures
critical theory
history
conflict
race and ethnicity
 
 
Pfau, Michael William Conventions of deliberation? Convention addresses and deliberative containment in the second party system. 635-654
 
  Although party conventions were originally conceived of as deliberative institutions, subsequent reforms that bound national convention delegates to the results of state primaries and caucuses have resulted in national conventions that most scholars have tended to understand in the terms of ceremony and ritual 
 
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debate
democracy
 
 
Carcasson, Martin Ending welfare as we know it: President Clinton and the rhetorical transformation of the anti-welfare culture. 655-692
 
  This essay presents a longitudinal analysis of Clinton's framing of welfare and poverty from 1992 to 1996 
 
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presidential figures
demographics
economics
politics and government
rhetoric