Image repair in President Bush's April 2004 news conference

Public Relations Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-143

  Benoit, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolstering; Defeasibility; Denial; Image repair; President George W. Bush; Press conference; Transcendence; War in Iraq

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646536771     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2006.02.025     Document Type: Article

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