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Nixon himself was not called the silent majority he was calling the average non protesting american the silent majority.
Richard Nixon is the 37th President of the United States. He referred to the Americans who did not express their opinions publicly against the Vietnam War, as the great silent majority.
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President Nixon appealed to a silent majority in the face of anti-war protests across America.
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Kerry, a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, protested Pres. Nixon's beliefs. Kerry wanted the troops out faster.
if he hasn't figured out he's a human by now, i don't think he ever will ~elf so to answer your question, there's two real answers one: if nixon didn't appeal to the silent majority in his silent majority speech of 1969, he never would have gotten re-elected. he knew that while protesting groups were against the vietnam war, the majority that were not as concerned with the hippie culture and politics etc, backed up his logic for stopping communism and allowing the war to continue. two: nixon's "silent majority" was a political slogan used to get people to think that the majority of american's were on his side. he made it sound as though there was a great majority of people who backed him up while in reality, most americans were looking for peace and a way out of the war, as they were when johnson was president. the "silent majority" had no influence in the election of 1972-- the only reason he was able to win was because in the midst of a war the people did not want to risk a shift in power.