DANE COOPER

Speeches of TR

Inaugural Address 1905

This was given after his landslide victory of the Presidency in 1904

The bible used in the Inaugural Address was the same one used to swear him in as Governor of New York in 1898

It was administered by Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller

938 Words

The Speech

Starts off speaking about the strength of our country, and what we’ve overcome

There is still much to be done, but we will do it Our relationship with other countries is important,

but more important is the relationship among ourselves

Great power means both responsibility and danger, warns about future issues that we have not seen, but not fear the future, face it prepared for anything

He refers back to the founding fathers, though we may be going through different times, they too had issues and they got past them just like we will today

We must show our character in everyday life, not just crisis

Compared to Epitaphios Logos

Though it is not a eulogy, it does draw some comparisons to the Greek tradition

He makes references to those who died before him, and that we have to stand for their beliefs and ideas even if they may be different in our day and age

The ideas of founding fathers and our ancestors comes up

Finally the epilogue, though it is not for the families of the war dead, it is for the families of those who have passed and those in the present who need to preserve our country in order for others to have the prosperity they have

Teddy and John Paul Jones

Roosevelt funded an archeological search for the body of John Paul Jones

TR saw himself as the fulfillment of Jones’ Revolutionary War The call for the Great White Fleet Used the mummified body of Jones to woo public and

legislators for his giant naval fleetIt’s possible John Paul Jones was a role model

to TR TR most likely studied Jones while at Harvard They both were extremely similar

Eulogy of John Paul Jones

Given by TR at Annapolis Commemoration on April 24, 1906

Speaks about Jones being a hero and having deathless fame

Speaks about his role in the Navy, and how his accomplishments should be known by everyone “Every officer in our Navy should know the deeds of JPJ

by heart”Speaks of specific events that Jones went

through in battleTalks about his life, and how his views and ideas

will live on throughout his death

Comparisons

This eulogy seems to reflect the Epitaphios Logos

It has everything The reference to JPJ being a hero, and his

achievements which cannot be measuredHis origin and his role played in the futureHis self-sacrifice and his devotion to the Navy

and what he means back to the NavyFinally the realization that he will live on

forever, and so will his ideas and beliefs

New Nationalism Address

On August 31, 1910, TR delivered what some called “one of the most powerful speeches given on American soil” Given in Osawatomie, Kansas 30,000 listeners there

There was a crisis in the Republican Party Those who favored President Taft Those who favored progressivism

TR wanted to keep Republicans from splitting and the power shifting to the Democrats

The Speech

Demanded New NationalismThe concepts of the extent to which a powerful

federal government could regulate and use private property in interests of the whole, references to labor It was “the most radical speech given by an ex-president”

Putting the National need before personal advantageDemands judiciary to be interested in human welfare

instead of propertyDemands representative body shall represent

everyone instead of just one classBasically a call for complete fairness

Comparisons to Epitaphios Logos

Though it is not a eulogy and there are not many comparisons to make to this speech there is the idea of a warning of what is to come The warning of representing just one class more than

everyoneThis reminds me much of Lincoln’s

Gettysburg Address in the way how they both said so much without actually saying very much

There was also hidden meaning in the speech, with foreshadowing to his potential running in 1912

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