Defiance in the Face of Evil Reagan's Speech on the Soviet Union

... analysis of Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” speech. The rhetorical situation is that the speaker is Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United St (…) In the “evil empire” and other Soviet-era speeches, Reagan laid out the principles that would play a key role in winning the Cold War. Reagan's ... He told an evangelical conference in Orlando, Florida that the Russians had "the aggressive impulses of an evil empire" and he lashed out at " ... That´s why he added content to his speech that accused the Soviet Union of being an “evil empire” and presented the issue as a good versus evil ... This article is part of a series on the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's famous “Evil Empire” speech which includes essays by Randall Fowler, Nina Shea, ... ... speech in Florida, he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire” and “the focus of evil in the modern world.” (The Soviets responded by saying that Reagan's ... In a famous speech on March 8, 1983, the one in which he referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," he also called the Soviets "the focus of evil in the ... Video courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. 0 replies ... C13322-21A, President Reagan addresses the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals ("Evil Empire" speech) in Orlando, Florida. 03/08 ... President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, walk to a waiting ... Reagan's initial “evil empire” speech. While in London, the ...