A C-Change in Presidential Rhetoric: Compassion to Conscience and Common Interest

July 13, 2009

President Obama said in a speech in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday that American support for a comprehensive global health strategy is driven by conscience and common interest. Ghana was also the setting, in February 2008, where former President Bush said compassion underlies American support for global health efforts. CGD vice president Ruth Levine compares the two presidents’ rhetoric and wonders whether it reflects a switch in speechwriters—or something more.

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