President Richard Nixon Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam, November 3, 1969
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- Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2017
- This speech is commonly referred to as the "Silent Majority Speech."
The President spoke at 9:32 p.m. from his office in the White House.
Hoping to co-opt the growing peace movement, President Nixon requested the support from “the great silent majority of my fellow Americans” for his plan for peace in Vietnam.
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Collection: The White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection
Original format: 2-inch Quad videotape
Transfer from second generation Betacam SP videotape
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I just want to say to the nixon library folks, that i admire them enabling comments and not deleting negative ones. Unlike other presidential library youtube channels...
Channels such as what?
@@Tomoko_Kuroki888 Channels such as the Obama Administration.
Ya, they understand that he was a crook and a liar.
@@davethompson3140 Kinda like Clinton, 9/11 Bush, Obama, and Biden? They all make Nixon look like a saint.
@@davethompson3140 One thing the Watergate prosecutors and judges prohibited, was allowing comparisons of the conduct of the Nixon White House with those of the Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman and Franklin Roosevelt Administrations. If they had, there never would have been a prosecution. Nixon wasn't actually guilty of anything except authorizing the Ellsburg break in, which type of operations, all previous administrations did. After Watergate, congress passed legislation to have FISA courts oversee this type of operation, and we all know how well that worked out.
Sadly he is only remembered for Watergate. His presidency was much more than that. He was complex and certainly had his faults but President Nixon accomplished much of what he set out to do.
Gotta love that drug war he started.
@@Lucas_Aaron right let's not forget that. Ends a war and creates a worse one
Yeah, Nixon's presidency was much more than Watergate -- the mass imprisonment of blacks, harassing opponents through the IRS, springing Jimmy Hoffa from prison in return for the Teamsters endorsement. and deliberately extending the war for four years for political reasons.
@@Lucas_Aaron I'm sure you you mean President Johnson!
Water gate was a bigger hoax than Russian gate ! ow we know
He had terrible social anxiety, but when he didn’t let that take hold over him, he was a purely wonderful orator and an astute and intelligent man. It’s unfortunate he let himself be distracted to dark places.
Yeah he was a little nuts
Without commenting on Nixon's presidency. it was very nice to just hear a normal president give a speech explaining an important topic without name calling and incoherent dialogue
Blind
@@gaylebordeaux7632 She's not wrong.
Reading this through the lens of 2022 it's sad that we're worse off now than we ever were in 2019.
Biden IS incoherent as is our economy now. Yay the mean man is gone at least!
@@gaylebordeaux7632 = IDIOT
" If a vocal minority, however fervout its cause, prevails over reason and the will of the majority, this nation has no future as a free society. "
If only he was here now to see it.
My all time favorite President we need another NIXON NOW
The most iconic speach during the most turbulent time in America's history. ..and it gets less comments than a cat sneezing.
well its all brainwash. maybe he doesnt understand vietnam is vietnam and not america but a normal human should
@@boogeyman2868 If you had bothered listening to the video, you would have heard Nixon's importance of a free south Vietnam.
I’m sorry but no this was not during the most turbulent time.
It’s fact that it isn’t.
maybe cause it lasted 6 more years
@@2024Blue. In my lifetime, there has been no time as violent, divisive, and with so much turbulence as the period from 1963-1975.
President Nixon, you are great. You got my support.
I'm not a conservative, but this speech is a stand out, very impressive and frank. Nixon was obviously a very intelligent and thoughtful man and not an altogether bad President.
Do you not see at this point that this guy took us off the gold standard one year prior to this recording and extended the Vietnam war for 6 years after this speech? We have been at war since ww2 ended and all our presidents are raping your account. Will you wake your behind up?????
@@jeremywatts8134So my understanding of what you're saying is not only was Nixon bad, with no redeeming points, but that every President since WW2 is also bad with no redeeming qualities? I mean everyone has a right to their opinion, but that seems a little severe.
@@lundsweden every president since Andrew Jackson has been controlled by special interests. Propaganda and intersectionality of identity has been used to divide America into a two party duopoly of corrupt bureaucrats. The president is a prop and the establishment elite who stay in influential positions far after each president leaves office control each incoming president. It's not severe opinion, it is harsh facts that Americans can't hear bc we've been programmed out of our minds. They are all crooks and war criminals who launder through the federal reserve and conflict.
@@lundsweden It's because Nixon was liberal for a republican and they don't really exist today. He signed the clean water act but for some reason it didn't apply to drugs he kicked that war off.
Regardless of what people say now about him, what a great speaker he was.
And he famously despised public speaking. He preferred to stick to the geopolitical scene. Very awkward guy, but damn was he effective.
He was actually considered mid at the time. Shows how far we’ve fallen
You are a stupid stupid man. Typical american
He was a great President, learned, and polished. He had a desire to serve!
His command of English and diction were impeccable.
Nixon Forever❤😊
Just way too many foreign agitators here making comments. Typical YT comments on foreigners hating on the United States. We don't care about your feelings or thoughts.
He speaks very straightforward, I like that he "predicts" criticism he might receive for his actions, and that he deals with it plainly and with maturity, He honestly doesn't seem like that terrible of a politician. He isn't annoying like many today seem to be.
He was very .honest hear. He was vengeful but had class at the same time
Thanks for having this available. I was only 4 at the time.
Excellent Speech
you would never see this openness and honesty today. He was the last president who wasn't a puppet.
Gerald Ford also wasn’t
Lol JFK was. Nixon was part of the problem
@@kkhertzmusic5696 how?
Yeah so open and honest that only two years later the Pentagon Papers were released and essentially proved that a lot of what he said was not true. Not to mention that by this point over 50% of the country was no longer in favor of staying in Vietnam.
@@myristicina. Vietnam war, North-South Korea war, War on Drugs
He was remarkably honest and transparent, looking back one can honestly say that. North Vietnam never wanted peace under any conditions proposed to them. In the end, they had it their way.
remarkably honest and transparent? have you listened to the tape
North Vietnam wasn't willing to allow the country to remained partitioned, and 5 years later, they reunited the South with their territory. Why should they have done anything else, and why should the US have had any say in the matter? Should Lincoln have accepted an independent Southern USA?
@@jake8855 go suck some communist dick. May one day the people of vietnam live free once again, having the freedom that your bitchass has, obviously not living in a communist country
Theres no such thing as north Vietnam. Just Vietnam. They kicked the westerners out and determined their own destiny
@@jake8855 they didn't "reunite" they invaded and annexed an independent and sovereign state that they wanted full and total control over, despite the wishes of the majority of the southern population who DID NOT want to live under communism and rule from Hanoi. Northern and Southern Vietnam were and still are two very different places, these differences go back centuries, read up on it you might learn something comrad.
He did end that war. God bless him.
I'm so grateful for this resource. Im from the UK and didn't know any of the detail of his tenure, other than he was corrupt, something illegal happened with wartergate and he was subsequently exposec as a crook who tried to cover up his crimes. I've only just come across this channel and having watched a couple of his interviews and speeches, I'm beginning to think I've been indoctrinated with lies all this time. I'm really looking forward to this speech about Vietnam. Thank you
He had some bad policies. But also some good ones. He won every state in the 72 election. He was very very smart. But he was crazy
Nixon, for me will always remain the greatest president of the second half of the 20th century. He was a visionary and unmatched in foreign policy by any president since. I wish we had a man like him in the White House today.
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Well said. Nixon was a throughly intelligent man, smart politician and effective president.
Just about any president from the late 20th century would be better than the dementia patient currently occupying the White House.
I will say…the Vietnamese who have came to America have been quick to forget the past drama and quick to assimilate.
One of America's finest Presidents
a man is a reflection of the team behind him
His strategy is very relateable.
His strategy is very relatable. 3:22
President Nixon has a great voice
Unbelievably well conceived speech.
Thank you President Nixon. I wish history had changed, you had stayed there longer to support the South Vietnam, that America did not switch to China so that the world now is safer than it is. From 6:00 to 7:23 he was saying exactly what’s happening in Taiwan and Ukraine now.
One of the greatest Presidents in American History - Too bad most people are too ignorant to understand why.
The single most crooked, paranoid, and cold president in American history.
Patriot!
Patriot 4:40
Nixon sure loved the word “precipitive” (which isn’t even an actual word).
The true citizen knows that duty is the greatest gift.
The true citizen appreiciates comforts of city 17 but uses discretion.
The true citizen identiband is kept clean and visible at all times.
The true citizen conserves valuable oxygen.
The true citizen's job is the opposite of slavery.
The problem was that even the South Vietnamese people were not supporting American troops, and many of them were actually supporting the Viet Cong. Our troops were never sure who the enemy was.
Of course they would support their fellow countrymen in the end against an invading enemy from abroad 💪
Nison . Jhoson . Kennedy is associated with Vietnam war crimes. Drop Bomb B52 . Release of dyhoxin poison ., crippled many Vietnamese children. We do nothing to affect your country? why did you go to North Vietnam to shoot and kill? so bad. And General Pol pot Cambodia is a genocide of the human race. Everyone can watch the movie Killing Fields
Nison . Jhoson . Kennedy gắn liền với tội ác chiến tranh Việt nam . Thả Bom B52 . Thả chất độc dyhoxin ., Làm nhiều em bé Việt nam bị tàn phế . Chúng tôi không làm gì ảnh hưởng tới đất nước của Ông ? tại sao Ông sang bắn giết phía Bắc Việt nam ?quá tệ Và Tướng Pol pot Cambodia là tên diệt chủng loài người . Mọi người có thể xem phim cánh đồng chết
Nison . Jhoson . Kennedy is associated with Vietnam war crimes. Drop Bomb B52 . Release of dyhoxin poison ., crippled many Vietnamese children. We do nothing to affect your country? why did you go to North Vietnam to shoot and kill? so bad. And General Pol pot Cambodia is a genocide of the human race. Everyone can watch the movie Killing Fields
Nison . Jhoson . Kennedy gắn liền với tội ác chiến tranh Việt nam . Thả Bom B52 . Thả chất độc dyhoxin ., Làm nhiều em bé Việt nam bị tàn phế . Chúng tôi không làm gì ảnh hưởng tới đất nước của Ông ? tại sao Ông sang bắn giết phía Bắc Việt nam ?quá tệ Và Tướng Pol pot Cambodia là tên diệt chủng loài người . Mọi người có thể xem phim cánh đồng chết
Not all South Vietnamese supported the US troops, but the majority did. The situation in South Vietnam was much more complicated than depicted in the news or in history books.
@@dinhcnguyen
No they did not. If that were the case they would have repelled the vietminh.. and the US would have allowed the unification election. Only a narrow set of collaborationists supported US occupation. Many Vietnamese in saigon smiled and pretended to be collaborators, out of fear. The moment they got the opportunity, they assisted the NLF with the Tet offensive. Including embassy employees. Delusional American occupiers were shocked. "I thought you liked us occupiers!"
Perhaps everyone you know collaborated, but youre still a minority
『the great silent majority of my fellow Americans』
I support and will obey Richard Nixon forever!
29:34 silent majority
This word is Japanese idol “Keyakizaka46”s song’s title
サイレントマジョリティとは、日本のアイドル欅坂46の曲のタイトルの由来にもなっています。
I don't care if Black Kids wanted to beat me up when I was 10 years old - just for wearing a "Nixon is the One" button.
He did eventually get us out of Vietnam & talks intelligently with sincerity.
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Needs more Nixon!
We marched north up to the DMZ. We marched west into Laos and Cambodia. We bombed north to Hanoi. We mined the Haiphong Harbor and the South China Sea. We even marched into the DMZ. But we never marched north of the DMZ. And the Chinese never came south (as they did in Korea). In Vietnam, America learned how to fight in Southeast Asia without getting into a war with China. Now we have a Vietnam Wall. We don't want a Great Wall of China.
An honest and well done speech, and this from someone who was born 18 years after it was broadcast. A shame that, domestically, Watergate is all he's remembered for. A complex man who let his insecurities rule him at times. Love to study foreign and national security things, regardless of who was President.
he sure spread it on thick .. old enough to remember this speech ..
The Man Who Ended the War
Hanoi ended it in 1975 with Soviet tanks
@@Thunderchild-gz4gcthanks to democrats who trashed Nixon's peace treaty.
President Nixon's greatest troops.
"If Vietnam and Ho chi minh troops didn't exist"
There i fix it for you
Wow, Tricky was in office less than a year at this point.
Nixon handled it well in hindsight
It. Is. Very. Nice from president Nixon. Always. He. Say. I. Believe. And. His come voice.
🎼🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶Nixon is the man he'll do everything he can to bring peace to our Land through the Guiiiiiidddiiinnnggg oooofffff God'ssss hhhaannndddd🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶
I don’t know a lot about President Nixon but he certainly seems like a thoughtful and intelligent man who has a true desire to stop the violence of war and to make peace but bloodthirsty people are not interested in peace
Sadly many of us have lost the do it ourselves mindset
You are on RUclips. There's plenty of "do it yourself" videos here.
@@michaelmurphy987 well I said many not all there are some left
@@michaelmurphy987 there's lots of people I know particularly the young that would rather pay for someone else to do it for them or get it done for free by someone else I think it sad that is why I mentioned it
@OldHeathen63 I understand you are referring to slavery which most of my family from that time period were poor farmers folks who did everything themselves they weren't lazy pricks
yes. let them do it themselves. you do your stuff yourself.
Richard Nixon was no saint, but leaving aside Watergate, he was one of America's greatest presidents.
He's a Saint compared to today's politicians, especially the dementia patient currently occupying the White House
A very intelligent and basically good man. Can only speculate where his horrendous faults came from.
paranoia and his weak ago
A PROFESSIONAL POLITCIAN NEEDS FORTY SEVEN YEARS FOR THAT
His human nature? Our human natures.
The carpet bombing of the North murdered vast numbers of innocent people, many of them children. It was a war crime and has a name ` Genocide`. A happy Christmas from Nixon. If there is a god, he does burn in hell.
He was insecure
Hopefully this will get the Paris Peace talks moving.
The United States clearly underestimated the Vietnam war...
China and the USSR didn't make it easy
Great President, Richard Nixon!
WAS HE MARRIED TO NANCY PELOSI AT ONE TIME
Well said Mr President.
The US Government funded the French Colonial Vietnam war. When the french lost , the US state department calculated that Ho Chi Minh would win 80% of a free vote. So to stop that, the US divided the country , and gave the South to a dictator called Diem. Millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of US servicemen died to stop one man being democratically elected . The carpet bombing of the the North was `Genocide` that murdered vast numbers of innocent people. Basically racism- we cant be beat by theses little yellow people !!
Hill, Forbes. “Conventional Wisdom-Traditional Form-The President’s Message of November 3, 1969.” _Quarterly Journal of Speech_, vol. 58, no. 4, 1972, pp. 373-386.
He is known for saying, I'm not a crook.
Sir am I related to tu ? Marston line, Daniel Benjamin Jordan was my Father.. yes if only 1 229/230
Richard Nixon was a flawed man, no debating that, but he also was a leader. I think that before Watergate, most Americans felt confident that we had a real President. Sadly we don’t have that in 2023.
0:06 “what is up my fellow youths”
He was a smart dude---perhaps too smart for his own good.
do you understand what his smart imposing of western ideology on others caused...?
@@boogeyman2868 probably; that's why they said what they said lol
With this speech, small wonder he was so unhappy when Daniel Elsberg leaked the Vietnam Study Taskforce (The Pentagon Papers) in 1971
The Pentagon Papers had nothing to do with the Nixon Administration's conduct of the war. It was the classified papers of the Johnson Administration. Nixon's team was unhappy that classified, top secret papers could be stolen by a mid-level employee and illegally leaked to the press.
@@tonyauxier5411 I know, but the way he reacted to the revelations uncovered in the leak, namely the US being involved in Vietnam far longer than the public had been told, was self-destructive long term. After losing in the Supreme Court case, New York Times Vs United States, Nixon created the White House Plumbers, to stop leaks, paving the way for Watergate to happen just over a year later
@@SiVlog1989 Those types of operations went on in every White House from FDR to Nixon. They were used by the executive branch for "matters of national security." Some were legit, others were not. Nixon was unfortunate in that both houses of Congress were Democrat. The same formula in every attempt to remove/impeach a president (Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Trump). After Watergate, and Nixon's resignation, FISA laws were enacted. It is pretty clear we still have the same levels of abuse and corruption of the executive branch, and nothing was fixed.
@@tonyauxier5411 thing is, Nixon was a clever person, he could have performed a brilliant piece of jujitsu, politically speaking, by saying "yes, leaking top secret documents is very serious, but, the fact that 4 Administrations before mine have lied to the American people about what we're doing in Vietnam is far worse," by the time of his first inauguration in 1969, most Americans were fed up with the endless war in Vietnam and it would have allowed him to think of a way to withdraw from Vietnam and save face for the US after what was revealed in the Papers.
@@SiVlog1989 If that had been Nixon's goal, yes. But Nixon did want to save the Republic of Vietnam. By this time, South Vietnam had a democratically elected president and legislature. The country rallied to the government during and after the Tet Offensive. By 1970, South Vietnam was making great strides toward becoming an independent, free market, democracy. Did the South Vietnamese government have flaws? Of course. But after Kennedy nearly destroyed the country by green lighting the Diem coup, the South Vietnamese were making serious progress. Had the US simply responded to North Vietnam's violations of the Peace Accords by bombing military targets and providing a reasonable measure of financial aid (which were both a part of the Peace Acccords), that goal would have been reached. Nixon had never wanted to just cut and run. In 1969, most Americans were thrilled with Vietnamization. Their perspective was that the war was 4 years old. If they knew all but a few American troops, rather than over one half million, by 1972; Nixon would have won the 1972 election by a landslide, which is what happened.
Nice thumbnail
17:36 Here you can see how Nixon's speeches sounded like a bunch of gobbledygook to the normal American sitting at home in front of the TV. Man.
Göbbels propaganda. The tragedies of American families learning about the death of the loved ones can never be given enough credit. Göbbels propaganda on steroids today with the war in the Ukraine - the levels of moral decay of people in power is beyond comprehension.
Cope communist
Why Richard Nixon withdrawal of troops from Laos 1975?
1:07 Prospects for peace
don't forget Nixon was intensively power hungry to his core. from his youth.
“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
Me from vietnam >:(
The best president of USA.
wow only listen to the words when he looks at the camera and write down the wordss when he looks away
or write down both
6:57 - 7:07
Rick, you have no idea....
23:16
Who approved that thumbnail
LBJ NEVER DID THESE OF ADRESSES. NIXON DID THIS A GODO BIT TO ADRESS THE NATION ON VIENTAM!
all I know he promised to get us out and we got out
Watching this during the George Floyd riots.
ok
The last time we had something close to a genius as President. For better or worse ….
A real president.
NO REAGAN THE ACTOR WAS BETTER OR THE PEANUT FARMER
Will always be remembered for Watergate and the only president to resign the office.
Because the liberal media, Hollywood and so on haven't shut up about it for nearly fifty years.
Nixon was an unspoken hero just like Truman And Kennedy that’s my opinion especially since I was part of that time . Johnson was the evil doer
Jane Fonda needed to keep her ugly soul out of something that was none of her damn business. As a Vietnam combatant go to hell you witch
26:00
is no one going to talk about how it glichs at 2:01
MY NATION GLITCHED WHEN WE ELECTED HIIM HE SENT ME TO NAM
Bro that wAs Johnson
Which is what happens when you rely on alleged friends in those countries, who are really apparent
enemies in disguise and the same thing has been repeated since in Afghanistan, and the middle east. When you want things done right you have to do them yourself, not rely on others.
A truly great man great president who was super insecure and paranoid
And with good reason!
NANCY PELOSI IS BETTER
The US Government funded the French Colonial Vietnam war. When the french lost , the US state department calculated that Ho Chi Minh would win 80% of a free vote. So to stop that, the US divided the country , and gave the South to a dictator called Diem. Millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of US servicemen died to stop one man being democratically elected . The carpet bombing of the North killed a vast number of innocent people, many of them children. It has a name ` Genocide` .
Ask any one there that had boots on the ground there
This is how a REAL POTUS should be, an intelligent and coherent speech that whether you liked him or not( mostly not) especially people of my generation, High School & College age for the most part. But Now ,I'll take Nixon over the likes of Trump or Biden, or most of these petty and self centered pols of today
Nixon. Vietnam draft, sending thousands of kids to be slaughtered etc. It makes Manson look like a bloody saint..
@@BuddsHanzoSword Nixon suggested of ending the draft as part of his election manifesto. It finally came into motion in 1973.The year the war ended. His presidency lasted from 1969 - 1974. No great intention of ending it at all.
@@skawashers Mate if you look at the numbers it went from a 500k amount in 68 to a much lower amount in 69 which is around 400k and by the 70s it lowered to 300k, in 1971 it went to 100k, by 72 it went to 24k, by 73 it was down to 50.
Richard Nixon tu still alive? 228/229
If Watergate never happened, he probably would've been remembered as one of the better presidents. Personally, I think he was an expert on foreign policy.
The US Government funded the French Colonial Vietnam war. When the french lost , the US state department calculated that Ho Chi Minh would win 80% of a free vote. So to stop that, the US divided the country , and gave the South to a dictator called Diem. Millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of US servicemen died to stop one man being democratically elected . The carpet bombing of the North killed a vast number of innocent people, many of them children. It has a name ` Genocide` .
Let this be a lesson to american youth. If youre not willing to do whats necessary to protect what you value, then youll lose it.
Hilarious like every Nixon speech
Richard Nixon Sir ? Real Rich? 227/228
His promises were ignored by Sen Fulbright (D-Ark). The Senator was instrumental on withdrawing aid to the South Vietnamese. The Senator whose party was responsible for the fall of SVN. The victory that we had won, the commitment to a whole nation meant nothing to the Senator who infamously said , 'South Vietnam means no more to me than a Texas Arkansas football game.' Kind of a callous statement to a people who suffered so terribly under the brutal communist.
I always hated Fulbright.
I take exception to your comment. I lived those days too. I was a Vietnam/Draft resistor. I totally refuse to believe ANY victory was "won" by the US in Vietnam. Withdrawing aid from the South Vietnamese had an imaginary effect as far as the war turned out. It was as predictable as what happened in Afghanistan when Biden pulled the final plug. To follow that war for 10 years and say that the S. Vietnamese lost b/c of American aid being withdrawn is absurd and baseless.
Fulbright knew the "plug" had to be pulled at sometime....as Biden did regarding Afghanistan.
@@topgeardel You are allowed to disagree.
@@ssgtsouth I prefer to put it more exactly....I have a right to disagree.
@@topgeardel Maybe TRUMP ended the Afghanistan -Biden just put the end to what Trump set up.
"No progress had been made at the negotiations in Paris.." well Mr. Nixon, we see now that wasn't true now was it?
nixon and truth do not mix well
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Imagine Obama doing this for Iraq tho……
Biden starts senate in ‘72 when Nixon’s re-elected