New PDF release: The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on

By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

ISBN-10: 1623490340

ISBN-13: 9781623490348

ISBN-10: 1623490359

ISBN-13: 9781623490355

In his televised and broadly watched speech to the state on November three, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon brought a phrase—“silent majority”—and a policy—Vietnamization of the battle effort—that echo right down to the current day. Nixon’s visual appeal in this evening framed the phrases within which a lot of the following civil clash and army procedure will be understood.

Rhetorical student Karlyn Kohrs Campbell analyzes this significantly vital speech in mild of the ancient context and its centrality to 3 different speeches–two past and one the subsequent spring, while the assertion of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia introduced a much assorted reaction. She additionally sheds mild on a discourse that generated a lot warmth in a country already heavily divided in its aid of the conflict in Vietnam.

The first unmarried quantity devoted to this speech, this addition to the celebrated Library of Presidential Rhetoric presents the speech textual content, a precis of its context, its rhetorical parts, and the disciplinary analyses that experience developed.

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