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"Nixon's Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam"

Speech

By: Richard M. Nixon

Date: November 3, 1969

Source: "Nixon's Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam." Available online at http://www.watergate.info/nixon/silent-majority-speech-1969... ; website home page: http://www.watergate.info (accessed June 2, 2003).

About the Author: Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994) was defeated in his presidential run in 1960 and a California gubernatorial run in 1962, but he staged a political comeback in 1968 and was elected to the White House. He was reelected in 1972, but resigned on August 8, 1974, after his role was revealed in covering up a break in of the Democratic Party Committee's headquarters in the Watergate building.

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