Politics of Yesterday, Today: Setting the Record Straight
Faculty Mentor
Thomas Hawley
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Start Date
May 2025
End Date
May 2025
Location
PUB 321
Primary Discipline of Presentation
Government
Abstract
This piece is an argumentative piece that seeks to analyze the political policies of three deceased United States Presidents (Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy) and the policies passed through the federal government today. In doing so, a comparison of both will occur to help speculate a thorough conclusion on the allegiance of said Presidents should they have magically transported to modern America. The piece pulls from several documents, recordings and speeches from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from various sources including historic analyses, institutional archives, and online foundations. The findings will show highly complex allegiances among the three former United States Presidents, allowing individuals across the political spectrum to not only better comprehend their own allegiances and policies, but to also understand these three Presidents' values for why they were motivated in the way that they were.
Recommended Citation
Reynolds, Daniel W., "Politics of Yesterday, Today: Setting the Record Straight" (2025). 2025 Symposium. 4.
https://dc.ewu.edu/srcw_2025/op_2025/o3_2025/4
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Politics of Yesterday, Today: Setting the Record Straight
PUB 321
This piece is an argumentative piece that seeks to analyze the political policies of three deceased United States Presidents (Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy) and the policies passed through the federal government today. In doing so, a comparison of both will occur to help speculate a thorough conclusion on the allegiance of said Presidents should they have magically transported to modern America. The piece pulls from several documents, recordings and speeches from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from various sources including historic analyses, institutional archives, and online foundations. The findings will show highly complex allegiances among the three former United States Presidents, allowing individuals across the political spectrum to not only better comprehend their own allegiances and policies, but to also understand these three Presidents' values for why they were motivated in the way that they were.
