This week on the Lectures and History podcast, a discussion about President Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address.

University of Kansas rhetoric and political communication professor Robert Rowland describes the use of language by President Ronald Reagan and the power it held in swaying the American people.

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Today we're talking about Reagan's first inaugural address, which is one of the most important

speeches of the 20th century.

Many people, the fact that there was a group of experts, I was one of them, and they ranked

Kennedy's inaugural as the greatest inaugural of the century and the second best speech of

the 20th century.

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