The Great Silent Majority: Resources

Can't get enough Nixon? This has all the Nixon-related tapes and transcripts to fill your little heart's desire.

Every president gets a library, so why not Nixon? FYI, they recently updated the entire library to appeal to a "younger" generation of visitors. How did they do this? By adding a bunch of giant televisions and blown-up pics of Nixon's face to the walls. Because, you know, everyone wants to see giant Nixon heads.

This one is for those of you who like a little John le Carre mixed into their political history. This website covers just about everything you need to know about Nixon and the Watergate scandal that rocked 1970s America.

It's a little dry. It's a little academic-y. But the Miller Center has some killer info on Nixon and the other presidents.

Oliver Stone has made a name for himself by creating thought-provoking political commentaries like the movie JFK and movies that can be described as total whacked-out weirdness like Natural Born Killers. Check out this one he made on Nixon and decided for yourself where it rests on the Stone spectrum.

Watch the Frost-y interviews that took place between David Frost and Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.

The Washington Post called this the "best movie about President Nixon and Watergate." How could they be wrong?

Hunter S. Thompson was known for a lot of things. He was the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he symbolized America following Nixon's presidency, and most of all he couldn't stand Richard Nixon. Nearly 20 years after Nixon resigned from the presidency, Thompson still held a grudge, which can be seen in this obituary after Nixon's death in 1994.

Before "The Great Silent Majority" speech and even before his resignation, Nixon was known for his mad debating skills. Kitchen debating skills, that is. He actually debated Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on who had the better kitchens, the United States or the Soviet Union.

If audio doesn't do it for you videophiles out there, here's the speech in its video form, so you can see every facial expression and hand movement that coincides with every word.

Listen to Richard Nixon's speech for yourself. Better yet, go ahead and download it to your phone so you can listen to it on your daily drive. That way you can memorize it word for word. You know you want to.

Nixon famously began using his fingers to signal V for "victory," as in victory for Vietnam. He may have been a little premature on that one. But it did look suspiciously similar to the peace sign that hippies used during the same era.

These were the anti-war protesting types that were always getting under Nixon's skin. They were apparently getting flowers into the muzzles of guns as well.