HISTORY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Revised Philadelphia Plan, Kent State Shootings, Gaylord Nelson
21 Nov 2016
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Richard nixon and the splintering of the democratic coalition. The silent majority (1968) nixon"s popular campaign slogan, referred to the idea that protestors had taken center stage because they were disruptive, but that the vast majority of. Americans disagreed with them, real majority in america had more traditional values and were being neglected by the press and politicians. The pentagon papers (1971) a 7000 page study on the vietnam war, conducted by the. Pentagon, secretary of defense mcnamara had authorized the report in "67, showed every. Nixon actively works to break apart the democratic coalition that was formed before him, doesn"t ever completely break it apart but creates small cracks that reagan would break open. Campaigned with a middle ground stance on vietnam, didn"t want to completely pull out of the war right away as that would be seen as conceding to the communists, vietnamization use more south. Vietnamese troops instead of american troops to fight the war.
