The Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush

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I Ailes, Roger, , n. Alexander, Lamar, , – All the Best, George Bush,  American Civil Liberties Union,  American exceptionalism,  American Family Association,  Americans with Disabilities Act,  Amend, Deb,  Amnesty International,  Arafat, Yasir,  Arendt, Hannah,  Aristotle, , –, ,  Baker, James, –, , ,  balance of power, , , – Beiner, Robert, – Bennett, William,  Berlin Wall, , –, ,  Bierbauer, Charles,  Bitzer, Lloyd F.,  Black, Charles,  Black, Edwin,  Blackwell, Robert,  Bormann, Ernest G., ,  Boskin, Michael, ,  Brady, Nicholas, , ,  Brazil, , ,  Bromley, D. Allan,  Brown, Jerry,  Brummett, Barry,  Bryant, Donald C.,  Brzezinski, Zbigniew,  Buchanan, Patrick, , –, , – Bulgaria,  Burke, Kenneth, , , ,  Bush, Barbara,  Bush, George H. W.: ability to compartmentalize, –; antirhetorical attitudes, , , –, , , ; attitude toward media, ; books by, ; comparison with Reagan, –, , ; defender of status quo, ; editing of speeches, , –; failure to develop narrative, –; humor, use of, –, ; ideas about leadership , , , , , , , , ; on Iraqi brutality, ; leadership during Gulf War, , –, –; own worst enemy, , –, ; penchant for secrecy, , ; perception of character, , , , , , , –, ; in presidential debates, , –; principles vs. politics, –; as procedural president , ; prudence, use of, , , , , , , ; on “read my lips,” –, , ; on religious right, –; sense of mission, – , ; “thousand points of light,” –; the “vision thing,” , –, , , ; the “wimp” factor,  Bush, George H. W., speeches of: acceptance address (August , ), , –, ; inaugural address (January , ), –, ; address on administration goals (February , ), –; address at Mainz, Germany (May , ), –; address on fall of Berlin Wall (November , ), ; state of the union address (January , ), , –; address at ceremony for German unification (September , ), ; address to the New York Economic Club (February , ), , – ; address on New World Order (March , ), ; address to the nation (April , ), ; address on national education strategy (April , ), –; University of Michigan commencement address (May , ), –; remarks on domestic policy (June , ), –; radio address (June , ), ; remarks at All American Cities ceremony (August , ), ; address to the Detroit Economic Club (September , ), , –; remarks at Points of Light celebration (January , ), – Bush, George W.,  Cable News Network (CNN), , ,  Card, Andrew, –, n. Carter, James Earl, –,  Carvey, Dana,  Carville, James, , , ,  Cavazos, Lauro, ,  Ceausescu, Nicolae,  Cecil, Richard,  China,  Chomsky, Noam,  Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN),  Christian Voice,  Cicconi, James, , n.,  Clark, David L.,  Clinton, Hillary Rodham,  Clinton, William Jefferson: on education, ; as effective commander, ; as governor, ; as president, , , n.; as presidential candidate, –, , , , – Clean Air Act (), n., n. Cole, Timothy,  Concerned Women for America,  Council on Competitiveness,  Council on Environmental Quality, n. Council on Foreign Relations,  Crouch, Paul,  Czechoslovakia, – Darman, Richard, , , –, n.,  Davis, Mark,  Demarest, David: attitude about speechwriters, ; on breaking tax pledge, ; on Bush’s view of rhetoric, n.; on framing messages, , , , , ; on influence of Sununu, , n.; on Persian Gulf Working Group, , ; on the “wimp” factor,  Denton, Robert E.,  Department of Education, – Desert Shield, – Desert Storm, – Dobson, James,  Dolan, Tony,  Doyle, Denis,  dramatistic analysis, ,  Dubcek, Alexander, – Duffy, Michael, , ,  Dukakis, Michael, , ,  Earth in the Balance,  Earth Summit, , – East Germany (GDR), – Edelman, Murray,  Education Excellence Act (),  Education Summit (),  Edwards, George C., , – Eisenhower, Dwight D., , – Elementary and Secondary Education Act (),  Elliott, Bentley,  Falwell, Jerry, ,  Family Research Council,  Fisher, Mary, – Fitzwater, Marlin: advice to Bush, , ; breaking tax pledge, , ; briefing the media, –; campaign strategy, , , ; coordination of Gulf War messages, , ; descriptions of Bush, , –; importance of news conferences, n.; New World Order, , ; relationship with Bush, n.; “vision thing,” ,  Focus on the Family,  Focus on the Family,  Foley, Tom,  Ford, Gerald,  France,  Frye, Russell,  Fulda Gap,  Gardener, John, – Gandhi, Indira,  G.I. Bill,  glasnost,  Glaspie, April,  Goodgame, Dan, , ,  Gorbachev, Mikhail, , , –, ,  Gore, Al, , , , n. Graham, Billy,  Grammar of Motives, A,  Gray, C. Boyden, , , ,  Great Society,  Greene, John Robert, ,  Greenstein, Fred I., n. Group of  (G),  Gulf War, – Guthrie, James,  Hagee, John,  Hall, Wynton C.,  Halperin, Samuel,  Hansen, David,  Harkin, Thomas,  Harlow, Bryce L.,    Hawkins, Augustus F., ,  Hetherington, Marc, – Hitler, Adolf,  Holiday, Edith,  Hoover, Herbert,  Hopgood, Stephen, , , – Hudson Institute,  Hungary, , –,  Hussein, Saddam, , –, ,  Hussein bin Talal (King Hussein),  Iraq, –, –, ,  Iron Curtain,  Isocrates,  Israel,  Iyengar, Shanto,  Jefferson, Thomas,  Johannesen, Richard L.,  Johnson, Lyndon B., , –, ,  Jordan,  Kane, Thomas,  Kant, Immanuel,  Kennedy, D. James,  Kennedy, John F., ,  Kent, Arthur,  Keppel, Francis, – Kerr-Tener, Janet, – Kerry, John, ,  Kirkpatrick, Jeane, J.,  Kissinger, Henry,  Khrushchev, Nikita,  Kiewe, Amos, n. Koh, Tommy,  Kohl, Helmut, –, – Kolb, Charles, – Korea,  Krauthammer, Charles,  Krenz, Egon,  Kuntz, Philip,  Kuwait, , –, , , ,  Kyoto Conference,  Lang, Mark,  League of Nations,  Lewis, William F., – Lincoln, Abraham, ,  Ligachev, Yegor,  Mainz (Germany), –, – Malaysia,  Malta, ,  Mapplethorpe, Robert, – Marshall Plan,  Matalin, Mary, , , ,  McClellan, George,  McClure, Fred,  McCormick, John,  McGroarty, Daniel,  McNally, Ed,  Medhurst, Martin J., – Mitterrand, Francois,  Mubarak, Hosni,  Mullins, Kerry,  Munich (Germany),  mutually assured destruction (MAD),  Nagy, Imre, – Nation at Risk, A,  National Academy of Sciences,  National Association of Evangelicals,  National Bureau of Economic Research,  National Defense Education Act (NDEA), – National Educational Goals Panel, – National Endowment for the Arts, –,  National Election Studies, ,  National Organization for Women (NOW),  National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), – New Rhetoric, The,  New...