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 ...

In 1954, Vietnam is a divided nation ... But their parents and "the silent majority" generally support the Washington establishment. Some men refuse to serve, becoming draft dodgers by escaping ...

When Nixon ran again in 1968, he cast himself as representing a “Great Silent Majority,” a more conservative America, in the face of riots and campus protests. Nixon also campaigned as the ...

Not everybody had reservations about the USA being in Vietnam. Though Nixon had spoken ... Nixon appealed to the ‘great silent majority’ in America to offer their support to continuing the ...