Oratorical encounters : selected studies and sources of twentieth-century political accusations and apologies / edited by Halford Ross Ryan ; foreword by Edward P.J. Corbett.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Apology as attack: LaFollette vs. Robinson on freedom of speech / Carl R. Burgchardt -- The Scopes trial: "Darrow vs. Bryan" vs. "Bryan vs. Darrow" / Thomas M. Lessl -- Accusations and apologies from a general, a senator, and a priest / Susan Schultz Huxman and Wil A. Kinkugel -- Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin vs. King Edward VIII / Halford R. Ryan -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the "Purge" / G. Jack Gravlee -- President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur: A study of rhetorical confrontation / Bernard K. Duffy -- Senator Richard M. Nixon's apology for "The Fund" / Halford R. Ryan.

In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Rachel L. Holloway -- Nikita S. Khrushchev vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower / Lawence W. Haapanen -- Senator John F. Kennedy encounters the religious question: "I an not the Catholic candidate for president" / David Henry -- Eight Alabama clergy vs. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Ronald K. Burke -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick tragedy / William L. Benoit -- President Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate scandel / Craig Allen Smith -- Gerald R. Ford encounters Richard Nixon's legacy: On amnesty and the pardon / Bernard L. Brock -- CBS vs. Mobil Oil: Charges of creative bookkeeping in 1979 / George N. Dionisopoulos and Stevel L. Vibbert.

The media and the Catholic Church vs. Geraldine Ferraro / Richard J. Jensen -- Elie Wiesel vs. President Ronald Reagan: A visit to Bitburg / Robert V. Friedenberg -- President Ronald Reagan's apologia on the Iran-Contra affair / D. Ray Heisey.