Richard Nixon’s Silent Majority Speech
Part One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYAg9mhlmM
Part Two http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon/videos/nixon-addresses-silent-majority
John Kerry’s Testimony in front of Senate Foreign Relations Committee April 22 1971
https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html
Part One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYAg9mhlmM
Part Two http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon/videos/nixon-addresses-silent-majority
- What did Nixon believe would be the consequences of immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam?
- What specific events did Nixon cite to support his arguments against "precipitate troop withdrawal"?
- What two options did Nixon give the American people? Which did he choose?
- What is meant by "Silent Majority"?
John Kerry’s Testimony in front of Senate Foreign Relations Committee April 22 1971
https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html
- What did John Kerry believe about the alleged threat that North Vietnam posed to the United States?
- What did John Kerry believe were the results of Nixon's policies as spelled out in the 1969 "Silent Majority" speech?
- What did Nixon mean by "Vietnamization," and what did Kerry think of this policy?