Rhetorical Analysis Of President John F. Kennedy's Speech

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On April 11, 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech in response to the dramatic increase in steel prices. Kennedy emphasizes how terribly these new prices are affecting the economy and American people as a whole, reinforcing these statements with several facts and statistics given to him by credible researchers. Kennedy’s purpose in giving this speech was to convince the steel companies to reduce their prices through logical statistics, a challenge to their morals, and by giving them a small reminder of what position he and the other men who disprove this increase hold. This public news conference was given to enlighten the steel companies about the damage they are doing to the American economy in hopes that they will value the economic