He called them the silent majority. Like them ... Without a note, President Nixon stood and delivered a compelling speech, capturing the global scene as only he could and sharing his vision ...

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 ...

Nixon wrote many of his own speeches (including the “silent majority” speech) but was cunning about using the right speechwriter to set the tone he wanted in any particular moment — Pat ...

A spokesman for the Harvard Vietnam Moratorium Committee said the speech would do nothing to dampen anti-war sentiment. "What Nixon has tried to show is that there is a silent majority behind him.

But as he walked off the stage after giving his victory speech in a Los Angles ... at the Republican Convention. Nixon ran as the champion of the "silent majority," those who rejected the ...

I think they would be very closely aligned. And remember, the America First movement actually began with Richard Nixon as the great silent majority. This is the exact same movement. So the great ...

It is another voice, it is a quiet voice in the tumult of the shouting. It is the voice of the great majority of Americans, the forgotten Americans, the non shouters, the non demonstrators.