Former prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, in her eulogy to Ronald Regan, honors his legacy. She adopts a sentimental tone in order to establish a connection between herself and the many grieving Americans. She develops this and utilizes many rhetorical strategies in order to support her claim, which is to simply honor Regan.
Thatcher opens her eulogy by qualifying that Regan’s main goal as President was to unify America, as well as have an optimistic outlook on each and every situation. She appeals to the mournful emotions of the audience by illustrating that he “sought to mend America’s wounded spirit” and what Arnold Bennett once called “the great cause of cheering us all up”. She joined us in this time of grief in order
