Elizabeth Hanford Dole : Speaking from the Heart

by Wertheimer, Molly Meijer

• ISBN13: 9780275983789
• ISBN10: 0275983781
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

As a politician, what you say and how you say it is almost as important as what you do. Political careers are made based not only on substantive achievements, but also on style, presentation, speeches, and debates. Dole's is no exception. After a career in government service spanning six presidents, from Lyndon B. Johnson to George H. W. Bush, she became widely recognized as a leading Republican politician in her own right after her 1996 speech at the GOP convention. In 1999 she spent six months campaigning for president before dropping out of the race due to a lack of adequate funds, and in 2002 she was elected U.S. Senator from North Carolina. In this biography of Dole, the authors show how she has been able to advance the causes she cares about, as well as her political career, through her consummate skills as a public speaker. Dole's career included service in two cabinets, as Secretary of Transportation (Reagan) and Secretary of Labor (Bush), and she also served as president of the American Red Cross. The authors quote liberally from her speeches and interviews to illustrate the events of her political career and to place her choices--personal, career, and political--in the context of the times and places in which she grew up and came of age. Her trajectory--from Southern belle debutante to Harvard Law School student and from political wife to presidential candidate and U.S. senator--is fascinating, and the deftness with which she has been able to deflect the criticisms thrown her way is instructive for women of both political parties and for politicians of both genders.

Author Biography

Molly Meijer Wertheimer is Associate Professor of Speech Communication and Women's Studies at Penn State - Hazleton.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Robert E. Denton, Jr.	ix
Foreword by Kerry Tymchuk	xiii
Preface	xv
Chapter 1 Introduction: Her Words Paint the Portrait	1	(22)
Chapter 2 Advocate for Public Policy	23	(24)
Chapter 3 Advocate for Religious, Patriotic, and Humanitarian Values	47	(20)
Chapter 4 Advocate for Women's Rights	67	(28)
Chapter 5 Advocate for Her Husband, the Republican Party, and Herself	95	(22)
Chapter 6 Conclusion: A Leader "A Long Way from the Twilight"	117	(14)
Appendix: Dole's Speeches	131	(122)
National Prayer Breakfast, February 5, 1987	131	(6)
University of Virginia Commencement, May 17, 1987	137	(6)
Department of Transportation Awards Ceremony, September 16, 1987	143	(4)
Republican National Convention, August 16, 1988	147	(4)
AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention, November 13, 1989	151	(6)
300 Group, November 15, 1989	157	(10)
Women's Bureau 70th Anniversary/Eve Awards Banquet, October 23, 1990	167	(5)
Everybody Counts: The Fourth Annual State of the Workforce Address, October 24, 1990	172	(6)
A Tradition of Trust, February 4, 1991	178	(5)
Republican National Convention, August 14, 1996	183	(5)
Redbook/Mothers Against Drunk Driving, May 9, 1997	188	(3)
Economic Summit for Women, May 20, 1997	191	(8)
An America We Can Be, April 7, 1998	199	(6)
American Red Cross Resignation, January 4, 1999	205	(3)
Forrestal Lecture, U.S. Naval Academy, April 14, 1999	208	(9)
Melrose High School, September 22, 1999	217	(6)
Presidential Withdrawal, October 20, 1999	223	(3)
Duke University Commencement, May 14, 2000	226	(8)
Republican National Convention, August 1, 2000	234	(2)
Senate Kickoff Announcement, February 23, 2002	236	(6)
U.S. Senate Acceptance, November 5, 2002	242	(1)
Maiden Senate Speech on World Hunger, June 5, 2003	243	(10)
Notes	253	(18)
Bibliography	271	(10)
Index	281