The "Silent Majority" Speech treats Richard Nixon's address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to US global power and domestic life. This book is critical reading for students of American political history and U.S.-Asian/Southeast Asian relations.
The "Silent Majority" Speech treats Richard Nixon's address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to US global power and domestic life. This book is critical reading for students of American political history and U.S.-Asian/Southeast Asian relations.
Scott Laderman is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. His previous books include Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory (2009) and Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing (2014).
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Series Introduction List of Figures Acknowledgments A Brief Note on Language Timeline Part One: Introduction. Toward "Peace" 1. Richard Nixon the Cold War and Southeast Asia 2. Vietnamization and the Illusion of Peace 3. Nixon and the Bloodbath Theory 4. The "Great Silent Majority" and Right-Wing Revanchism Epilogue. Conjuring Nixon in the Twenty-First Century Part Two: Documents 1. Richard Nixon "Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam " November 3 1969 2. Mrs. Dennis W. Harrison to Richard Nixon November 4 1969 3. Commentary by George Salem KWGN Television November 5 1969 4. Editors "President on Solid Ground in Search for Vietnam Peace " Orlando Sentinel November 5 1969 5. Robert T. Park et al. to Richard M. Nixon November 17 1969 6. Excerpt from Colonel Robert D. Heinl Jr. "The Collapse of the Armed Forces " Armed Forces Journal (June 7 1971) 7. Excerpt from George McT. Kahin "History and the Bloodbath Theory in Vietnam " New York Times December 6 1969 8. Richard Nixon "Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia " April 30 1970 Index
Series Introduction List of Figures Acknowledgments A Brief Note on Language Timeline Part One: Introduction. Toward "Peace" 1. Richard Nixon the Cold War and Southeast Asia 2. Vietnamization and the Illusion of Peace 3. Nixon and the Bloodbath Theory 4. The "Great Silent Majority" and Right-Wing Revanchism Epilogue. Conjuring Nixon in the Twenty-First Century Part Two: Documents 1. Richard Nixon "Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam " November 3 1969 2. Mrs. Dennis W. Harrison to Richard Nixon November 4 1969 3. Commentary by George Salem KWGN Television November 5 1969 4. Editors "President on Solid Ground in Search for Vietnam Peace " Orlando Sentinel November 5 1969 5. Robert T. Park et al. to Richard M. Nixon November 17 1969 6. Excerpt from Colonel Robert D. Heinl Jr. "The Collapse of the Armed Forces " Armed Forces Journal (June 7 1971) 7. Excerpt from George McT. Kahin "History and the Bloodbath Theory in Vietnam " New York Times December 6 1969 8. Richard Nixon "Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia " April 30 1970 Index
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