Famous speeches live on for a reason—for what they say, how they say it, or often both. Choose one that interests you, such as Julia Gillard’s “Misogyny Speech,” Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union,” Hillary Clinton’s “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights,” or John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, and analyze it as Safire has the Gettysburg Address. Look at how the speaker used particular lan- guage or rhetorical strategies to convey a message memorably
