"The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations ...

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 ran as the champion of the "silent majority," those who rejected the radicalism and cultural liberalism of the time. He chose the conservative governor of Maryland, Spiro Agnew, as his ...

Donald Trump sometimes seems to be channeling Nixon in his pursuit of “the silent majority,” a phrase coined by Nixon. Trump would be lucky to do as well as Nixon did in attracting voters with ...

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 ...

In a November address, he appealed to “the great silent majority of my fellow Americans” for their support. Opposing Nixon ...

In a phrase crafted by Buchanan, Nixon called it “the great silent majority.” Buchanan prefers to call it the New Majority. In the generalizations of political history, Buchanan—as a ...

Let's find that right way to address it." In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon sought and found support from what he called ...

Kennedy by a small margin of 112,000 popular votes. 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 ...

In his ‘Vietnamisation’ speech in July 1969, Nixon appealed to the ‘great silent majority’ in America to offer their support to continuing the war so that America could ‘win the peace ...

Churchill Cambreleng referred to those who refused to vote on a Congressional bill as “the silent majority.” The term was later used by Richard Nixon in October 1969 to marginalize and ...