Central states speech association officers and executive committee

Although Hitler relied on adaptations of the persuasive techniques of Catholics, Communists, Freemasons, Fascists, and the political propagandists of some democracies, he extended these techniques beyond ritualistic realism.     

Minutes of the executive committee,central states speech association December 29, 1969

In the aftermath of the 1960's riots, President Lyndon Johnson appealed to the value of law and order, balanced this call with a call for support of civil rights, stressed that the preservation of peace was a local responsibility, and appointed a study commission to search for solutions. Each of these rhetorical appeals was flawed, but the constellation reveals the value system of American liberalism at a time of impasse.