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In the 19th and 20th centuries, Pequot rhetorician William Apess called out colonial hypocrisies, Potawatomi leader Simon Pokagon disputed false “records penned by the pale-faced historians,” and Cherokee writer Ruth Muskrat Bronson gave a speech to President Calvin Coolidge that denied narratives of erasure.

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Johnson the undergraduate classicist, Eton rhetorician and middlebrow biographer was fond of making quotations, stitching together attitudes and throwing out highfalutin references to fascinate and flatter down-home audiences.

You may be tempted to note that Brett Favre the political rhetorician played 16 seasons for the Green Bay Packers, but that would be mixing sports with politics, which is something Favre and Donald Trump are staunchly against.

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Obama is a trained law professor and an eloquent rhetorician, but he could not make a coherent case.

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He met his hero Wayne LaPierre, the sunny rhetorician and National Rifle Association chief executive, on a duck-hunting trip.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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