We hate to bring this news to you, but there is no "great silent majority" of American society. Nixon isn't really speaking to anybody in particular. But at the same time, he is speaking to everybo...

Toward the end of the speech, Nixon starts getting all sappy and sentimental. He wants Americans to believe in America again, so he starts laying on the America love-song stuff.Laying it on real th...

Let's go ahead and get this out of the way: Nixon couldn't stand the 1960s counterculture movement. He made a name for himself throughout his political career criticizing those on the left, and esp...

Nixon wasn't called "Tricky Dick" for nothing. He knew how to get people on his side. Unfortunately, he sometimes did this using sketchy tactics, like wiretapping Washington's Watergate complex. Bu...