THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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Middle Class
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Loud Crowd
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Silent Majority
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Factory Workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nixon’s silent majority referred mainly to the older generation (those World War II veterans in all parts of the U.S.) but it also described many young people in the Midwest, West and in the South, many of whom eventually served in Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “silent majority"-to refer to Conservative voters who do not participate in the public discourse-later resurfaced in the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973 and the military draft with it that same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he also then concluded the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union.