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The Vietnam Veteran: A Victim of the War's Rhetorical Failure
(1988-02-22) Hollihan, Thomas A.; Klumpp, James F.
Argues that from defense and media coverage of the Vietnam War, an image of the character and activities of those fighting the war emerged. Within the defense of the war two justifications fought for dominance: a romantic call to idealism and a pragmatic materialist call to complete a task started. These contradictory motivations for the war colored the image of the soldier who fought the war as he became a concrete symbols caught in the contradiction. After the war, survivors had to then struggle with this image produced to defend the war.
Another Episode in the Great American Adventure: A Fictional Play (based on a speech by Richard Nixon "The Cambodia Strike," April 30, 1970
(Moments in Contemporary Rhetoric and Communication, 1972) Klumpp, James F.
A fictional representation of the writing of the speech in which Richard Nixon justified to the Nation the incursion into Cambodia.