In 1969, Nixon gave a speech called “The Great Silent Majority.” It was about Vietnam. Sprinkled into the discussion of war, however, Nixon made note of “mounting demonstrations” and how ...

But growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, unrest on college campuses ... Nixon ran as the champion of the "silent majority," those who rejected the radicalism and cultural liberalism of ...

Nixon had “the silent majority” he believed supported him and his views on Vietnam as his political weapon. After the Kent State affair, in which untrained Ohio National Guard members opened ...

President Nixon tried to demonstrate that most Americans supported him with his "Silent Majority" speech in November 1969. "To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans," Nixon said ...