Reasons why Richard Nixon appealed to the silent majority
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- Created on: 29-05-17 11:52
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- Reasons why Richard Nixon appealed to the silent majority...
- ... in 1968
- Riots/ protests in 1968 - 'a nation of crisis'
- Tet offensive
- Assassination of Martin Luther King/ riots
- Silent majority was tired of rioting/ feared division
- e..g assassination of Robert Kennedy
- Silent majority was tired of rioting/ feared division
- Miss America pageant
- Democratic National Convention in Chicago
- Descended into chaos with the help of the Mobe/ Yippies
- Vietnam
- Promised 'peace with honour'
- Johnson's public relations offensive showed the 'credibility gap'/lies
- 500,000 troops/ extremely expensive
- Attacks on the counter-culture
- Tired of change/ radicalism of Great Society programs
- 'welfare mess'
- Tired of change/ radicalism of Great Society programs
- Riots/ protests in 1968 - 'a nation of crisis'
- ... in 1972
- Exacerbated with the counter-culture and protest
- Woodstock (1969) was seen as anarchic
- Led by figures like Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix
- Success in dealing with protesters
- Kent State
- Middle America agreed with 'these bums... blowing up the campuses'
- Successfully deprived radical students from federal scholarships/ loans
- DNC (1972)
- Increasingly radical McGovern
- Woodstock (1969) was seen as anarchic
- Democrat George McGovern's campaign
- 3As: 'acid, abortion and amnesty'
- 'disruptive,radical and militant minority' of increasingly extreme left
- Nixon's campaign
- 5Ps: 'pot, permissiveness, protest, *********** and patriotism' - harsh electoral rhetoric
- Successes of his first term
- Streamlining Johnson's Great Society - whilst still being sympathetic to poverty -
- Appointed conservative justices to end bussing
- Gap in what he said/did - actually sympathetic to race issues - promoted affirmative action
- Impressive environmental legislation
- Endangered species (69), clean air (70) coasts (72) Environmental Protection Agency (70)
- Conservative press coverage (showed divisions)
- The Green Berets (1968) supported the war
- Exacerbated with the counter-culture and protest
- ... in 1968
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